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OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Seventeen cases of this disease were notified during the
year, and in addition there were six cases of slight inflammation
of the eyes reported ; 10 cases were removed to hospital.
Both eyes were affected in 13 cases, and one eye only in the
remaining cases. At the end of the year, one of the cases was
still under treatment at hospital.
Cases
Vision
Unimpaired
Vision
impaired
Total
Blindness
Deaths
Notified
Treated
At Home
In
Hospital
17 7 10 16 1 — 1
(Marasmus)
Measles.—See pages 56 to 58.
Milk, Virol, &c., Supplied to Nursing and Expectant
Mothers and Young Children.—In accordance with Circular
185 of the Ministry of Health, where the income falls within
the Council's scale, milk may be granted either free or at reduced
cost to:—
(a) Nursing Mothers ;
(b) Expectant Mothers in the last 3 months of pregnancy;
(c) Children up to 3 years of age.
In addition dinners may also be given to Nursing and
Expectant Mothers who are in necessitous circumstances.
The whole of the milk supplied at our Centres is Full
Cream Dried Milk, and the same procedure has been adopted
with regard to the distribution as in previous years. The total
amount of such Milk sold or distributed free to Nursing and
Expectant Mothers and Young Children during the year was
54,282 lbs. (24 tons, 4 cwts., 2 qrs., 18 lbs.).
The following tables show (a) the amount of milk, etc.,
given away and number of applicants receiving same, and (b)
quantities sold each quarter.