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There were 6 severe cases amongst the 29 notified, 4 of which
were removed to St. Margaret's (L.C.C.) Hospital for treatment,
and 2 received treatment in the hospital in which the patients were
born.
All cases notified during the year were reported to be cured
without damage to sight.
During 1936 the number of visits paid by nurses, under arrangements
made by the Council, to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum
or other inflammatory condition of the eyes of the newly-born
was 1,948. All cases were kept under systematic supervision by
the Health Visiting staff, and 89 visits were made to the homes
of these children.
The following table shews the distribution of the cases
notified :—
Sub-Districts.
Wards.
Cases
Births.
(live)
Kate
per
1,000
Births.
Year.
Cases.
Births.
(live)
Rate
per
1,000
Births.
N. Battersea
15
1,076
13-9
1931
37
2,477
14.9
S. Battersea
14
1,052
13-3
1932
30
2,319
12.9
1 Nine Elms
7
334
21. 0
2. Park
1
237
4.2
1933
16
2,263
7.1
3. Latchmere
5
276
18.1
4. Shaftesbury
2
179
11.2
1934
23
2,154
10.7
5. Church
2
229
8.7
6. Winstanley
5
276
18.1
1935
21
2,104
10.0
7. St. John
3
144
20.8
Mean
1931-35
25
2,263
11.1
8. Bolingbroke
1
238
4.2
9. Broomwood
3
215
14.0
Borough
29
2,128
13.6
1936
29
2,128
13.6
Erysipelas.
There were 65 cases of Erysipelas notified, 20 of which were
treated in hospital, but no death was recorded from the disease
during 1936 in Battersea.
In December the London County Council gave notice that cases
of Erysipelas would in future be admitted to their infectious disease
hospitals, instead of, as previously, to the general hospitals.
Measles.
In 1936 2,202 cases of Measles were notified under the Battersea
(Measles and Whooping Cough) Regulations, 1922, and 411 additional
cases reported from schools and other sources, making a
total of 2,613 cases, being 18-0 per 1,000 of the population ; 23
deaths from the disease were recorded, or 0-16 per 1,000 of the
population.