Annual report on the ophthalmic section.

  • Egypt. Maṣlaḥat al-Ṣiḥḥah al-ʻUmūmīyah. Ophthalmic Section.
Date:
[1919]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the ophthalmic section. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ — 8 — Conjunctival Flora of 100 Pupils in November 1919. Pure. Koch-Weeks. Pneumococcous. Total. Morax-Axenfeld . 28 5 5 - 38 Koch-Weeks. . 2 — ‘a||- « 2 Pneumococcus . 8 — —- 8 Influenza bacillus. — 2 — 2 Uncertain . 2 — — 2 Gonococcus with Koch-Weeks, Morax-Axen¬ feld, Pneumococcus. — _ 1 Negative. — — 47 Total. 100 A similar examination was made of 120 patients attending the hospital at the beginning of November for various conditions mainly conjunctival: all of them were trachomatous, but none presented any acute conditions. Here it was found that 32-5 per cent were negative, and 34 per cent showed the Morax-Axenfeld bacillus. The gonococcus was present in 6-6 per cent. Conjunctival Flora of 120 Out-patients in November 1919. ■■ Organisms. Pure. Gono¬ coccus. Kock- Weeks. Morax- Axenfeld. Pneumo¬ coccus. Other Organisms. Total. Per Cent. Gonococcus . 8 — — — — — 8 6-6 Koch-Weeks . 16 1 — -— L 9 20 16-6 ^ Morax-Axenfeld . 28 1 11 •— 1 — 41 34*1 Pneumococcus. 7 — — — — — 7 5*8 Other organisms . 1 — — — — 1 * 0*8 Negative . — — — — — - - 39 32*5 Mixed infection . — — — — - — — 4 3-3 Total .. . i \2 o The mixed infection consisted of one case Morax-Axenfeld, Koch-Weeks, and gono¬ coccus. and in three cases of Morax-Axenfeld, Kock-Weeks, and Pneumococcus. According to these bacteriological findings the average proportion of eyes with non- cicatrized trachoma in which the Morax-Axenfeld organism is present is thirty to forty per cent, and not fifty per cent as stated by Meyerhof in the Annales d’Oculistique for November 1906. The Morax-Axenfeld organism is invariably present in. cases of angular blepharitis and apparently causes the condition : it does not invariably accompany any other condition. The staff of twenty-four employees- at No. 2 Stationary Ophthalmic Hospital was examined in November. In twenty-two cases the smears were negative, in one case the Morax-Axenfeld was present with other organisms, and in one case a Gram¬ negative coccus. This is an interesting fact, considering that they are constantly in the company of patients with heavily infected conjunctive.