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Ophthalmia Neonatorum is a purulent discharge
from the eyes within twenty-one days of
birth.
All notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum
are now sent direct to the Surrey County Council
by the local general practitioners, as the County
Council are the authority for Maternity and Child
Welfare in this district.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eight cases of Puerperal Pyrexia were notified
during the year, six being removed to hospital and
the others nursed at home. No deaths occurred.
The Public Health Act, 1936, which came into
force on the 1st October, 1937, incurred an alteration
in the notification of Puerperal Fever.
Puerperal Fever is now omitted from the definition
of notifiable disease, and the obligation to notify
cases of Puerperal Pyrexia now includes the obligation
to notify conditions previously notifiable as
Puerperal Fever as Puerperal Pyrexia.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Hospitals.
1. Fever.
The Hospital provided for the isolation of
cases of infectious diseases is under the management
of a joint Hospital Board appointed by the
Borough Councils of Surbiton and Maiden and the
Urban District Council of Esher.
The total accommodation of the Hospital is
110 beds.