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Deaths of Older Children.
29 children died between the ages of one and five
years; of these, 17 were males and 12 females. The
largest individual cause of death was Pneumonia which
was assigned as the reason for 10 deaths in children
under the age of five, Measles six, Diphtheria two and
Pneumonia six between the ages of one and two and four
between the ages of two and five.
There has been a diminution in the number of
children who died between the ages of one and five,
29 compared with 34 for the previous year.

There were 61 cases in which a medical aid notice
was sent by a midwife to a medical practitioner on
account of some eye condition occurring in a newly born
infant. All these cases were visited by the Medical
Officer of Health and a Health Visitor. Of the total
cases investigated, only eight were notified as suffering
from true Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Under the rules of the Central Midwives Board
discharge from the eye of a newly born infant, however
slight, must be notified to the Medical Officer of the
Local Supervising Authority, who in the case of
Dagenham is the Medical Officer of Health.
Pemphigus.
During the year, there were 10 notifications ot
children suffering from Pemphigus, four of whom were
removed to hospital and the remainder treated at home ,
all recovered.