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six to other hospitals, and two were treated at home.
Two of the hospital cases proved fatal.
The deaths of four women were due to some one
or other of the diseases or accidents connected with the
puerperal state. A girl aged eighteen died after an
operation for Caesarian Section, two women died after
miscarriage, and one each from convulsions and pulmonary
embolism.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
The compulsory notification of this disease has been
extended to the whole of England by order of the Local
Government Board under the Public Health Acts of 1875
and 1896. The form of notification and the fees payable
are similar to those scheduled in the Public Health
(London) Act of 1891, with the addition that certified
midwives are under a similar obligation to notify and
are entitled to a fee of one shilling for each certificate.
Thirty-six infants were reported to be suffering from
this disease; the mothers were attended by doctors in
twenty-one cases, midwives in seventeen, and London
Hospital maternity assistants in two. At the end of
the year four of the infants were still under treatment,
two had left the district, and the remainder had been
cured without obvious impairment of vision.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.
Only two notifications of this disease were received
during the year. The first referred to a baby girl of
Hackney Road, aged six months, and was dated
February 11th. The patient was removed to the Queen's