Preventable blindness : an account of the disease known as ophthalmia of the new-born, and of its effects; with a plea for its suppression / by N. Bishop Harman.

  • Harman, N. Bishop (Nathaniel Bishop), 1869-
Date:
1907
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    make an injury rate of 57 per cent, of the affected children, or 0*041 per cent, of the total births. Amongst the 3,000 births where silver nitrate was used as a routine prophylactic immediately after birth, there were 37 cases of slight purulent discharge and 3 cases of well-marked gonorrhceal ophthalmia. Of these three, one was cured undamaged, one lost one eye, the third lost both. Taking the whole 12,680 births, we find no cases wherein some purulent discharge of slight or severe character was found after birth, or 0*87 per cent. Amongst these affected children the injured numbered 6, or an injury rate of 5*4 per cent., or 0*047 Per cent, of the total births. It will be interesting to compare these returns with those I obtained from the Council schools. Children. Injured. Total of Puru- lent Cases. Private practice in London L.CC. schools 12,680 790,000 6 = 0-047% (1 in 2,100) 180 = 0*0226% (1 in 4,400) 110 = 0-87%