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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Eleven cases of this complication of childbirth
were reported during the year. Three of the patients
were removed to the London Hospital, 5 to Bethnal
Green Hospital, and one each to the Eastern Hospital.
Mildmay Mission Hospital, and Mothers' Hospital,
Lower Clapton Road. Two of these patients died
from the disease. A third death took place at the
London Hospital of a case which was not notified.
Puerperal fever was fully discussed in my Annual
Report for 1920.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Thirty-five cases of purulent eye discharge in the
newborn were notified to me, all by doctors. In two
cases the infant died from another cause, but in the
remaining cases the condition was cured without any
apparent impairment of vision. Several of the worst
cases were removed to a hospital, and 33 cases received
nursing attention at home from the Shoreditch
and Bethnal Green District Nursing Association,
the Borough Council paying part of the cost.
Six hundred and ninety-four visits were paid by
nurses of the Association, many of the cases requiring
visiting for many weeks, and often more than
once in a day.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES, Etc.
Diphtheria.
There were 539 cases of diphtheria notified during
the year.
Of these, there were 19 cases under the age of
1 year. 216 between the ages of 1 and 5 years. 234
between the ages of 5 and 15 years, 52 between the
ages of 15 and 25 years, 14 between the ages of 25
and 45 years, and 4 between the ages of 45 and (55
years.