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Number of cases notified-
By medical practitioners 34
By midwives or nurses 8
42
Number removed to hospitals 6
All cases of ophthalmia neonatorum notified are at once
visited by the Health Visitors, and steps are taken to see that
they are receiving medical treatment, either at home or at hospital.
The attention of all medical practitioners practising in the Borough
has been drawn to the facilities for admission of these cases to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Special Hospital (St. Margaret's
Hospital).
Nursing attendance is provided by the Council gratuitously
where cases of ophthalmia neonatorum are being treated at home.
Two cases occurred of permanent damage to the eyes from
ophthalmia neonatorum, in one case leading to total loss of sight
and in the other to impaired vision resulting from damage to the
right cornea. In the first case, owing to delay on the part of the
midwife in attendance in notifying the Medical Officer of Health
the case was not removed to hospital until three days after the
onset of the disease. The case was removed to St. Margaret's