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1927, however, a separate session for ante-natal work has been
held on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30. It will now be possible
to carry out much more efficient work, and a larger attendance
of expectant mothers is hoped for.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
This disease being of a serious nature every effort should
be made to prevent its occurrence; ante-natal inquiries to detect
and treat conditions in the mother that might give rise to the
disease, and instructions to the mother as to methods of avoiding
infection of infant's eyes are of importance. Care of the eyes
during labour and after the birth is equally necessary. On notification
each case is promptly and rigidly followed-up in
order to ensure that appropriate treatment for the condition is
obtained at once and persisted in until a cure has been effected.
During 1926 only one case was notified in this District.
Notifications of this disease in each of the five previous years
numbered 1, 3, 3, 2 and 2 respectively.

I have the honour to be,
Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Macnamara and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
E. A. FREEAR WILKES,
Medical Officer of Health.