This report studies the principal causes of maternal death at Harare Maternity Hospital. In 1983 the maternal mortality rate for the greater Harare unit was 52/100,000 compared to 11.9/100,000 for England and Wales. Puerperal sepsis, hemorrhage, post-abortal sepsis and hypertensive disease accounted for 78.5% of the deaths. 12 of the deaths were due to puerperal sepsis, 8 of which had normal...

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic and clinical variables characteristic of non-epidemic intrapartum or puerperal group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. METHODS The records of 47 patients diagnosed with intrapartum or puerperal GAS infection over a 6 1/2 year period at Hadassah-University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem were reviewed. Data regarding 25,811 women, the general population of ...

Holstein cows (n = 51) that had been diagnosed with toxic puerperal metritis were used to determine the treatment efficacy of various antibiotics. On the day of diagnosis, cows affected with toxic puerperal metritis were assigned randomly to three treatment groups. Cows in groups 1 and 2 received 22,000 IU/kg of procaine penicillin G i.m. for 5 d. In addition, cows in group 2 received an intrau...

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 an...