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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Six cases of this complication of childbirth were
reported during the year. Two of the patients were
removed to the London Hospital, two to Bethnal
Green Hospital, one to the Mothers' Hospital, Lower
Clapton Road, one to the Jewish Maternity Home,
Underwood Street, Stepney, and one to a Metropolitan
Asylums Board Institution. There were no deaths
from the disease.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Forty-three cases of purulent eye-discharge in the
new-born were notified, all by doctors. In every case
the condition was cured without any apparent impairment
of vision. Eighteen cases received nursing attention
at home from the Shoreditch and Bethnal Green
District Nursing Association, the Borough Council
paying part of the cost: 468 visits were paid by
nurses of the Association.