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DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS OF PARTURITION.
Nine cases of Puerperal Fever were reported; eight
were treated at various hospitals and one was attended at
home. Two of the hospital cases proved fatal. The
deaths of four other women were stated to be due to
some one or other of the diseases or accidents connected
with the puerperal state; they were returned as one each
from Urœmia, Heart Disease, Embolism and Ruptured
Uterus.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Twenty-seven infants were reported to be suffering
from this disease; the mothers were attended by doctors
in nineteen cases, by midwives in six, and by hospital
maternity assistants in two. At the end of the year two
of the infants were still under treatment; the remainder,
wih one exception, had recovered without obvious impairment
of vision. Of four cases which were under
treatment at the commencement of the year, a complete
cure was effected in three, but the fourth has suffered
permanent impairment of the vision of one eye.
CEREBRO-SP1NAL MENINGITIS.
Twenty-four cases of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
were notified during the year, all but three pi the patients
being under fifteen years of age. Nine of the cases were
fatal.
For the information of Medical Officers of Health
the London County Council circulates returns, giving
particulars of each case of this disease which occurs
throughout London. The information is in the first instance
prepared and sent by the Local Medical Officer