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I have in every case made the inquiry myself on the day of receipt of the
notification, and have afterwards kept the cases under observation. I paid 42
revisits to these houses to urge cleanliness and carc in following the Doctors
directions and to arrange for disinfection of the clothing and bedding after the
infant's recovery.
The District Nursing Associations working in the Borough have been most
kind in co-op crating with the Public Health Department in this matter, and
have agreed to attend any cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum on receiving
written request from me to do so, provided that the patient is being medically
attended.
The following Institutions have expressed their willingness to co-operate
with us in this way :—
the Queen s Nurses, 26, Heathhurst Road.
„ ,, 143, Camden Street.
,, „ 35, South Villas, Highgate.
The Metropolitan and Nursing
Association for providing trained
Nurses for the sick poor.
23, Bloomsbury Square.
the North London Association for
nursing the sick poor
413, Holloway Road.
These Associations cover every district in St. Pancras, so that there is no
part of the Borough in which it is impossible to obtain skilled attendance
should occasion require.

The need for the greater instruction of the untrained nurse and relations who
look after both mother and infant in the intervals between the visits of the
Doctor or Midwife, is very apparent in many of these cases.
The London County Council has provided instruction for these nurses in
special classes during the winter months ; and I have sent names of women who
have been nursing Ophthalmia Neonatorum cases to the nurse in charge of one
of these classes, ill order that they may receive special instruction on the care
of the eyes of newborn infants.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Celia Smith,
Sanitary Inspector.