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OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
A Health Visitor is instructed to visit immediately upon
notification, and inquire into the circumstances of the case.
Cases notified during 1935 :—
Treated Vision Vision Total
Notified. At Home. In Hospital, unimpaired, impaired. Blindness. Deaths.
3 2 1 3 — — —
Arrangements have been made with the London
County Council for the reception and treatment of cases
of Ophthalmia Neonatorum from the Borough, at St.
Margaret's Hospital, Kentish Town, N.W.5.
Application for the admission of cases to be made by
the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough, who will
arrange for the conveyance of patients to and from the
Hospital.
The charge is to be at the rate of 10s. per patient per
day.
No case was sent to Hospital under this scheme during
the year.
The case treated in Hospital was an infant born in the
Maternity Wards at the Kingston & District Hospital and
transferred to the London Lock Hospital with the mother.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
Two cases were notified, one in April, a baby of four
months, and the second in November, one of seven months.
They were admitted to the Kingston & District Hospital
and both died
The special form of report was forwarded to the
Ministry of Health through the Medical Superintendent
of the Hospital.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Cases of Tuberculosis notified in. the Borough come
under the administrative control of the Surrey County
Council.