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LOWER GENITAL TRACT I NFECTIO N: In all, 58 s Ubjects had a
septic perineal lesion, of which 47 were infec ted episiotomy
and n i ne were infected tears. One sUbject had a Bar t ho l in's
abscess together with a n i nfected episiotomy and a nother had
only a Bart holin's abscess. The overall i ncidence of lower
genital tract i n f e ctio n (LGTI) is thus 151. 4 per 1000.
Episiotomy wound sepsis occurred i n 47 o f t he 99 episiotomy
performed In t h i s sample, giving a wound infection rate of
47 .5%. The infection rate for t h e 53 perineal tears that
occurred i n t he study sa mple i s 17.0%.
POSTPARTUM HYPER,TENSION: Thir t y-f i v e persons examined a t
follow-up were hyp e r tens i ve with blood pressures greater than
140/90 rnm Hg . Fou r more were admitted to hospital because o f
severe hy pertension, and there f or e the prevalence of
postpartum hyperte ns i on is 101. 8 pe r 1000 de liveries (10 .2%).
Nine s Ubjects were s tated to be hyp ertensive prior t o
delivery including the four ....ho ....ere admitted postpartum. Of
thos e discharged home , t ....o wer e still found to be hypert e nsive
at follow- up . Thus when these nine eubjecce are excluded, the
inci dence o f postpartum hypertension is 88.2 per 1000
deliveries.
POSTPARTUM ANAEMIA : I n all 109 of 327 postpartum blood
s amples collected were found t o have hae moglobin l ev e l s l e s s