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Maternity and Child Welfare. 61
of the eyes, 10 for diseases of the throat, including
enlarged tonsils and adenoids for operation, four were
for dental caries, three for diseases of the nose and one
for disease of the skin. The health visitors also carried
out a certain amount of treatment at the homes of the
children, including massage for cases of rickets, 20 visits,
treatment of diseases of the skin, 18 visits; and the
application of fomentations, etc., 8 visits; or 46 visits
in all.
4 and 5. Visiting of cases of Measles, etc. The
health visitors visited not only the 55 notified cases
but also 12 suspected cases of Measles, 14 of the cases
necessitating second visits to determine their progress.
No case required nursing assistance and no case required
treatment in the Isolation Hospital.
Cases of whooping cough notified through the schools
will in future be visited in the same way as measles,
nursing assistance being given when it is necessary or
desirable.
No cases of poliomyelitis were notified during the
year. Infant diarrhoea was practically absent, no
information regarding cases having reached the health
visitors.
6. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Four cases were notified
during the year. In three of these cases a doctor
had been engaged beforehand and was in attendance
at the birth, and in the fourth the midwife called in a
doctor on the first appearance of the inflammation of
the eyes on the fourth day. All the cases continued
under medical supervision with good results, there being
no permanent injury. There was no occasion for the
health visitors to treat the cases as the nursing was
satisfactory. One case occurred in a Nursing Home
and was attended by a trained nurse, one was attended