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severe, responded well to treatment and the eyesight was
preserved. I feel sure that blindness would have resulted
but for the constant attention it was able to receive in our
hospital.
A claim for £5 5s., being the estimated cost of treatment
for these two infants, was made from Government under the
new Maternity and Child Welfare Grant. A sum of
£2 12s. 6d. was granted in respect of this hospital treatment.
DISINFECTION AND CLEANSING AFTER
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The disinfection of bedding, clothing, etc., is carried
out at the Isolation Hospital. Infected rooms are sprayed
with a 1 in 20 solution of cyllin. In many cases a solution
of formalin, 1 in 50, is used.
Considerable use was made during the year of Section 5
of the Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, 1890. 59 notices
were served under this section to cleanse rooms.