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Puerperal Pyrexia.
Seventeen cases were notified during the year of which
12 were from the Corporation Maternity Home where nine
were isolated and treated. Six cases were removed to Bow
Arrow Hospital, one to an L.C.C. Hospital and one was
isolated at home.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Seven cases were notified. Two were transferred to White
Oak Hospital, one to Woodfield Eye Hospital and the remaining
four were treated at home.
Analysis of Cases.
(a) Vision was unimpaired
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(b) Vision was impaired
—
(c) Vision was lost
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(d) The patient died
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(e) The patient was still under treatment at the end of
the year
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(f) The patient removed from the district
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(g) Classification under the above heads cannot be
made
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Measles.
967 cases were notified. Eighteen cases were treated in
Hospital, 15 at Bow Arrow Hospital and three at other
Hospitals. There were two deaths, one of which was not
notified as a case of measles.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis).
141 cases notified of which one was treated in hospital.
There were no deaths.
Deaths attributable to this disease average over a thousand
per annum in England and Wales.
Given a potent vaccine a reduction of the attack rate to
about one-third and a substantial reduction in mortality may
well be expected. In the past many vaccines have been put
on the market without much regard to their potency as a
result of the many technical difficulties involved. At the
present time considerable research is taking place in an
endeavour to produce the perfect immunising agent and field
tests on a large scale are taking place in many districts.
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