Ophthalmia neonatorum : the problem after thirty years of statutory notification and sixty years of Credé prophylaxis / Arnold Sorsby.
- Arnold Sorsby
- Date:
- 1945
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Ophthalmia neonatorum : the problem after thirty years of statutory notification and sixty years of Credé prophylaxis / Arnold Sorsby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Percentag Fig lO. Incidence Set (me (SE [EN SSS NN SR f SUNSHINE’ HOMES : PROVINCIAL BLIND SCHOOLS 60 1920-31 Bhind Schools 1922 1932-43 0s Siege Bag 33 8 , : S 3 = E aa > 50 Ss OB : : S S S S S ee = Ss &§ 8 3 B : 40L & S a Bs 8 Se S 3S es Cc“ = Ss abe S Interstitial Keratitis and TIridocyclitis (1922) idem + Choroiditis and Syphilitic lesions (1944) Optic atrophy Measles | Phlyctenular Ophthalma + Purulent Ophthalmia of later years 7 Changes in the Proportionate Incidence of some Causes of Blindness in Childhood: 1920-44. (c) Returns from Provincial Blind Schools. The Board of Education returns for 927 blind children at 16 provincial schools (Ministry of Health, 1922) allow a com- parison with an analysis obtained for 524 blind children at 7 provincial schools in 1944 (Table VIII). The following main groups lend themselves to comparison. Board of Education, 1922 Present Series 927 cases 524 cases (1944) Ophthalmia neonatorum 30°4% 92% Purulent ophthalmia of later years 25, — Phlyctenular ophthalmia 2, S27, Interstitial keratitis 41% » OG, Iridocyclitis 25% 08% Choroiditis [?] o8% Syphilitic lesions [?] 256 Optic atrophy 12°9% 53% Congenital anomalies: 5 Including myopia | Bye 67°6°% Excluding myopia 30°8% ; 550%](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32843677_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
