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0phthalmia Neonatorum—continued.
Daily visits were paid to these cases by the Women Sanitary
Inspectors or Health Visitors to ensure that the child received
proper treatment.
In three cases the infants were removed to the London County
Council St. Margaret's Hospital for treatment.
Nurses from the various Nursing Associations in the Borough
attended and treated eight of the above cases in their own homes, and
the remainder were professionally supervised either by private
Medical Practitioners or as out-patients of Hospitals.
Pneumonia.
During the year, 180 cases of acute primary pneumonia and
73 of influenzal pneumonia were notified. The deaths from these
notifiable forms of pneumonia numbered 43.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Three of the seven patients notified as suffering from puerperal
fever were confined in hospital. Of the four remaining patients,
three were admitted to hospital after confinement, and one
received medical attention in her own home.
The deaths from notified cases of puerperal sepsis numbered
three.
Twenty-one notifications of puerperal pyrexia were received
during the year. Of these, 14 occurred in hospitals to which the
patients had been removed for their confinements, and seven
following confinement in the patients' own homes ; four of these
patients being subsequently removed to hospital for treatment.
The number of deaths of notified cases was two.
The departmental classification of the number of women who
died in, or in consequence of, childbirth in the area during 1932
was eleven ; five from puerperal sepsis and six from other causes.
The stated number of deaths from puerperal sepsis was,
according to the Registrar General's classification, four and from
other puerperal causes four.
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever.
During the year 1932, three cases of Typhoid Fever and four
cases of Paratyphoid " B " were notified. Six of the cases were
removed to hospital. There were no deaths.