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The following figures show the number of cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum notified during the past five years: 1946, 5; 1947, 11; 1948, 4;
1949, 1; 1950, 2. It is to be remembered that many cases of ophthalmia
neonatorum are not due to gonorrheal infection, and neither case in 1950
were venereal.
The treatment of patients is now the responsibility of the Regional
Hospital Board.
The following are the V.D. Treatment Centres situate nearest to
Ilford:—
Romford.—The Annexe, Oldchurch Hospital, Waterloo Road,
Romford:—
Sessions Monday, 4 to 6.30 p.m.
Tuesday, 4 to 6.30 p.m.
Thursday, 12 to 3 p.m.
Whitechapel.—Whitechapel Clinic, Turner Street, Mile End,
London, E1:-
Sessions
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m.
Saturday. 10 a.m .to 3 p.m.
Consultation
Times
Treatments are given from 9 a.m. onward.
West Ham.—Queen Mary's Hospital, West Ham Lane, Stratford,
London, E.15:—
Sessions (Males) Monday, 3 to 6 p.m.
Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, 2.30 to 4.30 p.m.
(Females) Monday, 6 to 8 p.m.
Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 3 to 6 p.m.
Saturday, 2.30 to 4.30 p.m.
Publicity and Propaganda, Etc.
Copies of the magazine "Better Health" are distributed monthly to
the reading rooms of Public Libraries, the Infant Welfare Centres, and at
the Public Health Offices.
Public lectures to Ratepayers' Associations, Evening Institutes and
Church organisations, etc., on health topics were given during the year.
The Chairman of the Public Health Committee also made reference at
a number of Council meetings to health subjects. Poster displays regarding
Diphtheria immunisation and health topics were also given prominence.
Arrangements were made for the films, entitled "Local Government"
and "One Man's Story," to be shown to the members of the Public
Health Committee and others on 9th January, 1950.
Health Investigation: "Survey of Sickness."
A "Survey of Sickness" was made by the Government Social Survey
Organisation at the request of the Ministry of Health in Ilford during
the period October. 1949. to March, 1950.
The object of the Survey, carried out at regular monthly intervals, and
based on samples of the population seeks to obtain information about the
amount of ill-health occurring in the country under present conditions.