[Experience with registration of purulent-septic diseases in newborn infants]

The recording or urgent reports in Moscow since 1974 allowed analyzing the cases of purulent and septic diseases for the period of 1974-1978. The features of the time course and morbidity pattern of the disease, its seasonal fluctuations and the time of onset are presented. Thus, a tendency towards a decrease in morbidity was noted during the above period. The leading role of the diseases of the skin and the subcutaneous fat was established, the morbidity reports were found to fall mostly on the first 2 weeks of the infants' life, and the morbidity rate varied in different maternity hospitals. The recording ensured obtaining current data on morbidity, thus allowing forecast and prevention of the disease.