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The mode of transmission of this illness has not yet been defined
with any precision. It is known that the infecting agent is to be found
in the naso-pharynx and in the intestinal tract, and hence transmission
either by droplet infection from the breath, or by the enteric route
would appear to be feasible, and control measures should have these
considerations in mind.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
There were again no cases of this eye infection in the new born,
whereas in years gone by this dreaded disease was responsible for
not a little blindness. Modern chemotherapy in the form of penicillin
and the sulpha drugs has robbed this infection of most of its terrors.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Notifications of a rise in temperature during child-birth totalled
47. All in respect of women confined in the St. Helier Hospital. Of
these, 10 were in respect of residents in Carshalton, 39 were first deliveries
and all cases recovered.
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