The Treatment of Puerperal Sepsis, with Some Notes on the Bacteriology of Puerperal Fever *Being a paper read at the Indian Science Congress, Lahore, in January 1927.
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a close study of the bacteriology of puerperal fever, it must be stated that there has been no appreciable difference in the incidence of this disease within the past twenty years even in Great Britain. Statistics show that. In this country the incidence of the disease is very much greater. In Southern India maternal mortality from sepsis is at least 6 to 8 times as great as it is in England and Wales, and in the city of Madras the returns show that 1 out of every 60 mothers dies from puerperal sepsis. The problem then of prevention and cure of this serious complication is one that deserves the close attention of all obstetricians in this country more than anywhere else, and it is to focus that attention and to stimulate a discussion that we have ventured to submit this paper to the Congress. At the Government Hospital for Women and Children in Madras about 3,000 women are confined every year, while a large number of women confined outside are admitted suffering from puerperal sepsis of varying severity. The scope then for a close study of this disease as it manifests itself under local conditions has been considerable, and while we do not lay any claim to any new line of treatment, we think it will not be out of place to put on record our experience in regard to the treatment of this disease.
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