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Hornsey 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Ten cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified. Nine
were treated in St. Margaret's (L.C.C.) Hospital and one was
nursed at home.
Cases
Notified.
Treated
Vision
unimpaired.
Vision
impaired.
Total
blindness.
Deaths.
At home.
In hospital
or nursing
home.
10 1 1 9 10 0 0 0
TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925, AND
SECTION 62, PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925.
No occasion has arisen in the course of the year to put these
powers into action.
Sanatorium provision for all forms of Tuberculosis in
Hornsev is .made bv the Middlesex County Council.

Table: There are 543 beds available solely for Middlesex under the Middlesex County Council scheme for the treatment of Tuberculosis in sanatoria, allotted as follows:—

There are 543 beds available solely for Middlesex under the Middlesex County Council scheme for the treatment of Tuberculosis in sanatoria, allotted as follows:—

Accommodation.TYPE OF CASE.
AdultsChild'n
M.F.
County Sanatorium, Harefield12912956Pulmonary—Sanatorium
8,, —observation
22
County Sanatorium, Clare Hall, South Mimtns12066-,, late sanatorium and hospital
Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot--25
Non-pulmonary
Victoria Home, Margate——6„