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" Intern " Midwifery.—The number of St. Pancras births which took place
in hospitals were as follows : —
University College Hospital 133
Middlesex Hospital 112
Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital 211
City of London Lying-in Hospital 94
* Duchess of Marlborough's Maternity Hospital, 21, Endsleigh St. 56
St. Pancras House 74
Other hospitals 43
723
(or one sixth of the total number of births).
(* Including paying patients).
Infantile Diarrhcea.
41 deaths of infants under one year of age from diarrhoea and enteritis
were registered during 1916. The number of such deaths in each quarter of
the year was as follows :—
First quarter 5
Second „ 9
Third „ 14
Fourth „ 13
The number of deaths of children under 5 years of age from diarrhoea and
enteritis was 56.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
38 cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified during 1916, 29 by
medical practitioners, 9 by midwives.
Of these, three cases developed the disease before being brought into St.
Pancras and were notified elsewhere, and one proved not to be suffering from
the disease. The corrected number of notified cases was therefore 34, equal to
an incidence rate of 7.5 per 1,000 births. Other numerical details will be
found on pages 14-15.
In regard to severity, 8 of the cases were regarded by the visitor as grave,
14 as moderate, and 12 as slight.

Eight of the cases were illegitimate.