[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City.

  • Sheffield (England). City Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (10) It might have been expooted that the cY3rcro\¥ding Yh.i has existed lately and which is getting worse year by year would hav' affected the maternity mortality,. The statistics do rxot show that th has happened aig yet, the maternity mortality being lower in 1920 thcxn ill the previous years. The following patients were sent to hospital from tho tiaternity and Child Welfare Centre during 1920.'- Indoo'L' Outdoor Totalc Cphthalmia Ophthalmia cases. cases. Hoyal Hospital. 67 1 l.oyal Infirmary 49 47 Children's Hospital.192 3.--hool Clinic. 32 Eigar Allen Inst,. _4^ - 34A 4 8 During 192C, 3^2 cases of ophthalmia v/ero notified as ooraparod with 219 1919- increase is partly accornted for by the increase in the number of births from 10,416 in 1919 to 1.31S6 in 1920. During 1919 s-H the cases notified vforo visited but 2„ and there were no case-s of lest eyesight.. During 10 20 all the cnisea were visited. Two ohildren were blinded in one eye and one in bctl: eyes. The blind child died subsequently. There were three other cases where the eyes did. not perfectly recover. In 11 gh.scs the Ghi?i.d died from another camse during the attach., 20 cases vfere etl . under observation at the 31st December and as Gheso incl.u.dedsome cad cases there wil] probably be further d-oriage t,c tho eyes to