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Barking 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Particulars of these cases are afforded from the following table:—
| Age . Group. | Cases. | Vision Unimpaired. | Vision Impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treated. | |||||||
| Notified. | At Home. | At Hospital | |||||
| Under 3 weeks | 12 | 11 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — |
ANTE-NATAL CENTRES.
Owing to the increasing' number of expectant mothers avail
ing themselves of ante-natal supervision during the year, an
additional session was opened on the 1st May, 1925, at the Central
Clinic in East Street. The average number of new cases seen
per session was 3.8 while on an average the number of subsequent
attendance per session was 7.5, making an average attendance
of 11.3 expectant mothers per session. During 1924 the average
attendance of expectant mothers per session was 14.8.
Ante-natal measures continued to be adopted locally where
possible in venereal complications, otherwise arrangements were
made for treatment being carried out at neighbouring hospitals.
Syphilis remains the great cause of still-birth and abortion.
Gonorrhoea causes sterility in both male and female, being at the
same time causative of many of the more serious obstetrical and
gynaecological complications.
The following table affords particulars of cases referred from
the ante-natal clinic for hospital and other treatment:—