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Wandsworth 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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21
Infective Diseases
Four children have been admitted for treatment at Queen
Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, under the scheme provided by the
L.C.C.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
11 cases of this disease occurred and four of them died.
Two other cases were notified, but as they were found, after
further investigation, to be suffering from some other disease,
they are not included in these figures.
This is a decrease compared with 1926, when there were 17
cases with seven deaths.
Malaria.
Nine cases were notified, seven males and two females.
Dysentery.
One case of Dysentery was notified.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations,
1926, which came into force on 1st October, 1926, revoke those
of 1914, by abolishing the dual system of notification by the
medical attendant and by the midwife. Responsibility of notifying
these cases now rests with the medical attendant.
37 cases were notified and the following Table shows the
effect of the disease on the vision, according to whether
the cases were treated at hospital or at home.

TABLE XIII.

Result of Treatment.
Recovered— Vision not affected.Vision Impaired.Total Blindness.Died.
Treatment received:— In Hospital14---
At Hospital, Out-patient5---
At home18---
Total37---