A Note on the Treatment of Puerperal Infection

? ? the medical profession, who never fail to Irripress on their patients rhe necessity for b.e^uring qualified medical aid at the time of delivery. But, apart from the uneducated masses, it is amazing how educated Indians will shew a total disregard of this useful advice: the result is a deplorable infantile mortality, and often a tedious puerperim which not infrequently also ends in the death of the mother. I have come across more than a score of such cases at Benares during