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124
Cases Notified and Visited.
Number of notifications received 23
Very slight cases 13
Sight of one eye damaged —
Recovered 23
Occurred in Institutions 5
Occurred in the practice of medical practitioners 2
Occurred in the practice of midwives 16
Admitted to hospital as in-patients 8
Treated as hospital out-patients 3
Treated privately 12
Visited by nurse 16
Zymotic Enteritis.— Notifiable June-September.
(Whole Borough).
Notifications received (Patients under 5 years) 29
Under 1 year (see feeding below) 12
1 to 2 years 10
2 to 3 years 3
3 to 4 years 1
4 to 5 years 3
Died before notification received 2
Visited 29
Treated in hospitals 3
Of the 12 cases of Zymotic Enteritis under 1 year of age which were
notified, 2 died. Both were hand-fed. The remaining 10 were fed as
follows:—Breast-fed, 5; mixed feeding, 3; hand-fed, 2.
Home Nursing.
By arrangement with the Nursing Associations nursing is provided
(with the consent of the practitioner attending a patient) and paid for by
the Council at the rate of 1s. 3d. per visit, in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Pneumonia, Zymotic Enteritis,
Pemphigus, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.