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Apart from true cases of Ophthalmia, midwives have to report cases
of inflammation of the eye, and these, together with cases of Ophthalmia,
are kept under observation by the Health Visitors. The Borough
Council has made arrangements with certain local nursing organisations,
viz., the kanyard Nursing Association and the Queen's Nurses,
Rotherhithe, for a nurse to visit and carry out the treatment prescribed.
Where, for any reason, hospital in-patient treatment is deemed
advisable, facilities are provided at St. Margaret's Hospital, Kentish
Town.
Erysipelas.
41 cases were notified during the year.
Enquiries are made particularly in connection with the possibility
of any prospective confinement in the house.
Enteric Fever.
5 cases were notified—there were no deaths.
Other Notifiable Disease.
With the exception of Tuberculosis, which occupies a separate
section of this Report, no notifiable disease, other than the foregoing,
occurred during 1936.
II. NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
In the absence of formal notification, the reports from the head
teachers of schools and a perusal of the death returns give some idea
of the prevalence of these diseases. Their importance, however, cannot
be stated and judged by the death-rate, for they are peculiarly liable to
be the precursors of much chronic disability and ill-health, the extent