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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
32 cases were notified, of which nine were in Clapham, seven
in Streatham, one in Tooting, and 15 in Wandsworth.
30 of the cases were visited. 13 were attended at birth by
midwives. 12 were treated at hospital as out-patients, one, an
illegitimate child, removed to the Workhouse with the mother
and could not be traced on discharge, one was born and died in the
Union Infirmary, one was born in Clapham Maternity Hospital
and returned home to Nottingham, the 17 remaining being treated
at home. Two cases removed and could not be traced, and one
died from Pneumonia. The 27 remaining cases have recovered.
Five cases were notified by registered midwives.
Venereal Diseases.
Six deaths were stated to have been due to Syphilis, three
being of infants from Congenital Syphilis, and three of adults.
The Public Health (Venereal Diseases) Regulations, 1916,
were issued during the year by the Local Government Board, and
under these Regulations, Authorities are given power to provide
advice and treatment to those persons suffering from any form of
venereal disease, free and secretly.
The London County Council is the authority for London, and
arrangements have been made by that body with a number of
General Hospitals, none of them being situated in this Borough,
where persons suffering can have treatment.
Glanders and Anthrax Cases.
No cases of the above diseases were notified under the above
Orders by the Veterinary Inspector of the London County Council.