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In five instances the swabs were positive. Four of these
positive contacts were admitted to the Willesden Isolation
Hospital, and one was isolated at home under treatment
until two negative bacteriological results had been obtained.
ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Twenty-seven cases of this
disease were notified during 1915. of these, 2o were cured,
one died, and one was still under observation at the end of
the year. In the case of the other five the result is not
known.
Seven of the cases attended the Eye Clinic, and of these
five were cured, one was admitted to the Willesden Infirmary,
and one was still under observation at the end of the
year.
Vaccination Statistics.—The following Table, No.
31, gives statistics of the Vaccination Returns in this
district since 1898 :—