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The Ministry of Health in a letter dated January, 1923, sanctioned
expenditure and the payment of grant for the examination
and treatment of the eyes of expectant and nursing mothers where
such treatment tended in the opinion of the Medical Officer of the
Centre to preserve the mother's health during pregnancy and
lactation.
Since the middle of 1924 a number of nursing mothers,
whose sight has become impaired, have been referred to the
Council Oculist for treatment from the Infant Welfare Centres.
The following are the figures for this service since its commencement
in 1924:—
1924. 1925.
(a) Number of mothers for whom spectacles were
prescribed and provided 13 12
(b) Number of mothens to whom prescriptions only
were given 3 —
(c) Number of mothers examined by Oculist for
whom spectacles were not prescribed 6 4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—During the year 1923 arrangements
were made with the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the
reception at their St. Margaret's Hospital of cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum from the Ilford district, details of which were printed
in the Report for 1923.
No cases were treated at St. Margaret's Hospital during the
year.