Studies on Puerperal Sepsis Based on the Examination of the Vaginal Flora of Women in Labour and the Investigation of an Outbreak of Puerperal Sepsis

Loudon, Margaret Emily Robin (1934) Studies on Puerperal Sepsis Based on the Examination of the Vaginal Flora of Women in Labour and the Investigation of an Outbreak of Puerperal Sepsis. MD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

For purposes of convenience this study on puerperal sepsis will be divided into two parts. Part I: The vaginal flora of women in labour in relation to the development of puerperal sepsis. Part II: Puerperal sepsis in a maternity hospital. A combined clinical, bacteriological and epidemiological study. In Part I. all the material for examination was collected from patients in the labour wards of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital; the bacteriological investigations were carried out entirely by myself in the Bacteriology Laboratoy of the Pathological Institute at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary while a Muirhead Research Scholar in Bacteriology, and all the clinical notes were taken by me personally int he wards of the Maternity Hospital. This study of the vaginal flora was being carried out by me when the opportunity arose of investigating the Puerperal Outbreak described in Part II. In Part II. much of the clinical information was extracted from the journal of the Maternity and Isolation Hospitals concerned, but the bacteriological examinations of swabs from the patients, staff and hospital, and the serological investigations were all conducted by myself in the laboratory.

• Item Type: Thesis (MD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Medicine, Pathology, Obstetrics
• Date of Award: 1934
• Depositing User: Enlighten Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:1934-80031
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2020 10:05
• Last Modified: 03 Mar 2020 10:05
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/80031