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Farnborough Hospital 1
Guys Hospital 1
Patient's home
Same
Greenwich Borough Council
Maternity Home 1
Same
Nursing Home, Bexley 1 Same
Patient's home 3 Same
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Two cases were notified during the year. One was
transferred from the City of London Maternity Hospital
to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and the other
was admitted through the Corporation's scheme to the
St. Margaret's L.C.C. Hospital. The cases did well and
recovered without injury to the eyes.
Measles and Whooping Cough.
1938 was an epidemic year for measles and 430 cases
were notified from schools. Two children died as compared
with three in the 1936 epidemic, and it was felt
that on the whole the epidemic was mild though several
very ill cases were seen. Eleven cases were admitted
to the Isolation hospital, either on account of the
severity of the disease with or without complications or
inadequate facilities in the home.
Through the Corporation's scheme nursing provision
for seven cases by the Bexley Nursing Fund was
arranged.
A supply of adult serum was obtained from donors
on the staff of the Department and examined and put up
in sterile ampoules of 10 c.c. each, after being tested for
sterility by Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome, Ltd. The
adult serum was issued to general practitioners on
request. Eleven contacts, who were either debilitated
or suffering from another disease were given 10 c.c.s
each on the 4th to the 6th day after contact with a case
or onset of rash in the first case. In five cases measles
was entirely prevented, in five others a very mild attack
of measles followed, as desired, and in the eleventh
case, the child, aged 11 months, just recovering from
whooping cough and bronchitis, measles and bronchopneumonia
followed, but some benefit was given and
the child recovered.
None of these children has developed any untoward
symptom since
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