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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cation) Act, 1889, to proclaim all cases of purulent ophthalmia occurring in children within twenty-one days of birth notifiable by the attendant in whose knowledge they come, under penalties provided in the Act. 2. An exercise of the powers of the Central Midwives Board in the construction of rules for midwives on their register so as to include in difficult labour (a) purulent vaginitis in the mother, (J?) ophthalmia of any degree in the child, with the rule that a midwife shall be re- quired to notify the case and call in a doctor. 3. The arrangement of such a plan as will enable the case to be promptly and efficiently treated, either by the private doctor, or by a doctor or doctors deputed by the Midwives Supervision Boards, or by a public hospital, or by the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board ; and to aim that the cases should be taken into hospital for treatment, the mothers being provided for within the hospital for such time as necessary. 4. That the results of all such cases on the cessation of the disease should be notified to the medical officer of health for the district, for return to the Local Government Board, and subsequent publication with the returns of infectious diseases.