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Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
52 cases were notified during the year, or 30 more than in the previous year.
17 belonged to the Limehouse district, 6 to St. George's, 25 to Mile End, and 4 to
the Whitechapel district.
Poliomyelitis.
25 cases of Poliomyelitis were notified during the year, or 10 more than in the
previous year; 5 belonged to the Limehouse district, 3 to St. George's, 14 to Mile
End, and 3 to the Whitechapel district.
A. F., male, aged 2 years, of Havering Street, was notified on February 28th.
He was feverish, and taken to the London Hospital on March 2nd, and was detained
there until March 7th. Three months afterwards the right leg was paralysed, and he
attended at the Children's Hospital, Hackney Road, once a month. Ten months after
the date of notification, the child was still attending the Children's Hospital once in
two months. He is improving, but is not able to use the right leg properly.
A. C., female, aged 8 months, of Lucas Street, was notified on June 30th by
the East London Hospital, where she was an in-patient. Her left arm was paralysed.
She died in July from Epidemic Enteritis.
D. S., male, aged 1¾ years, of Commercial Road, was notified on July 17th.
He suffered from facial paralysis, and had been attending the Hospital for Paralysis,
Bloomsbury. He is now quite well and is able to run about.
A. F., female, aged 1¼ years, of Oxford Street, E., was notified on July 24th.
The left arm and left leg were affected. She attended the London Hospital three
times a week and was able to walk, but was unable to pick up anything with her
hands. The family has now left this house, the present address being unknown.
M. G., female, aged 5 years, of Great Alie Street, was notified on July 31st by
the London Hospital, where she was attending as an out-patient. Both legs were at
first affected, the right leg being worse than the left. She is much better, and attends
the East London Hospital for Children every six weeks. She is now able to use both
legs, and can stand and walk a little. She is waiting for a splint, and then she is
going to school.
H. M., female, aged 3½ years, of High Street, Stepney, was notified on August 4th
and was taken to the London Hospital in a comatose condition. There was paralysis
of all the extremities, and the patient only lived one hour. At the post-mortem
examination there was injection of cerebro-spinal matter, but no visceral changes.
C. B., male, aged 1½ years, of Fieldgate Mansions, was notified on August 4th.
The child was an in-patient at the East London Hospital for Children for six weeks,
and afterwards attended as an out-patient. Both arms were affected. The right
arm is much better, but the left arm is not much better. He is not able to walk.