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HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR PUERPERAL FEVER.
In the last Annual Report an account was given of the action taken by your
Council in regard to hospital accommodation for Puerperal Fever.
On the 16th July, 1910, the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
adopted a reconnnendati >11 of their General Purposes Committee " that the
Local Government Board be informed that the Managers are prepared to make
arrangements for the reception of certified eases of Puerperal Fever into their
Hospitals." There the matter still stands.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR OPHTHALMIA
NEONATORUM.
Your Council, in March, 1911, received a communication from the London
County Council forwarding a copy of an Order made by them requiring the
notification, in the Administrative County of London, of cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, which had been approved by the Local Government Board.
Your Council also, 011 the 12th April 1911, considered as to hospital accommodation
for this disease, and were informed that out of a total of 116,560
births in London in 1909 about 30,000 births were attended by midwives.
From these .30,000 births there were about 165 eases of infants found to be
suffering from inflammatory eyes, and of these about 16 cases, or one-tenth,
were such as might have to be sent to the hospital for treatment. From these
figures it was seen that there would probably be about 60 eases of Ophalmia
Neonatorum a year in London which would need hospital treatment.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board having already agreed to provide
accommodation in their hospitals for cases of Puerperal Fever, your Council were
of opinion that it would be possible for them to also provide for the small
number of cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum at the same time, and recommended
that the Metropolitan Asylums Board be asked to consider the advisability for
providing a ward 011 the north and a ward on the south side of the Thames for
urgent eases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum at the same time as providing similar
separate accommodation for Puerperal Fever cases. The Board have not taken
and are not likely to take any action
M.A.B. HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR CONSUMPTION.
The question of hospital accommodation has often been before the Managers
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and by them has been referred to the
Local Government Board. It is still under consideration.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR MEASLES.
On the '6th July, 1910, the Metropolitan Asylums Board, on the recommendation
of their General Purposes Committee, resolved, " That the Local
Goverment Board be informed that the Managers are willing to arrange for the
reception tentatively of measles, and other approved diseases, in their fever
hospitals, provided the Board can empower them to admit selected cases from
the poorer classes for which 110 accommodotion is now available."