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Kensington 1924

The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1924

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Administration 59
Advisory Committee to the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee—
Work of the 41
Archer Street Infant Welfare Centre 32
Artificial Pneumothorax Treatment 27
„ Sunlight Treatment 35
Baby Clinic, Tavistock Road 34
Bacteriological Work 66
Bakehouses 44
Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Infantile
Mortality Rates in 29 Metropolitan
Cities and Boroughs (Table) 13
Births 4
Bramley Road Infant Welfare Centre 33
Campden Hill Infant Welfare Centre 33
Cancer 22
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 19
Chapel of Rest 67
Cleansing of Verminous Persons Act,
1897 67
Closing Orders 75
Common Lodging Houses 72
Convalescent Homes 39
Council's Housing Programme 70
Creagh Nursery Training School 39
Cream Regulations 50
Day Nurseries 38
Deaths 6
„ Causes of (Tables) 7 and 80
„ Causes of at age periods (Table V.
Appendix) 82
Dental Treatment of Tuberculous Persons 26
Dinners, Supply of 52
Diphtheria 15
Disinfection 64
Dispensary Treatment of Tuberculosis 24
Dogs, Fouling of Pavement by 68
Drainage Work 66
Dust Removal 65
Dysentery 19
Earl's Court Infant Welfare Centre 33
Encephalitis Lethargica 17
Enteric Fever 17
Erysipelas 21
Extra Nourishment, Mothers and Infants 51
Extra Nourishment, Tuberculous Persons 26
Factories and Workshops 52
Food Supply 42
Furnished Rooms 78
Golborne Infant Welfare Centre 33
Grants to Hospitals 41
Grants to Maternity and Child Welfare
Institutions 41
Health Officers, Statistics of Work done
during year (Table VII. Appendix) 90
Health Officers (Female) Duties and
Work of 30
Home Helps 39
Home Nursing by Golborne Centre Nurse 40
Home Nursing by Kensington District
Nursing Association 39
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Home Office Tables (Factories and Workshop)s
55
Homes for Deserted, Widowed or
married Mothers and their Children 38
Home Work (Factories and Workshops) 54
Hospital Letters 41
Houses, Let in Lodgings 72
Housing of the Working Classes 69
Housing, Repairs and Improvements 73
Housing Statistics for 1924 76
Ice Cream 44
Illegitimate Children, Births and Deaths
of 11
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1923 67
Infantile Mortality 8
Infant Welfare Centres 31
Infectious Disease, Cases notified during
the year (Table II. Appendix) 79
Influenzal Pneumonia 18
Ladbroke Road Baby Hospital 34
Lancaster Road Infant Welfare Centre 33
Legal Proceedings 59
Malaria 18
Margarine and Butter Substitutes 50
Marriages 4
Maternal Mortality 12
Maternity and Child Welfare 30
Maternity Home 35
Measles 21
Men's Workshops 52
Midwifery Arrangements 37
Milk, Dried, Supply of 51
„ Fresh „ 51
„ Supply „ „ 42
Milk Supply for Expectant and Nursing
Mothers 51
Mortuary 67
Mothercraft Training Society 38
National Children's Adoption Association
Hostel 39
Non-notifiable Diseases 21
Notifiable Infectious Diseases 14
Notification of Births Act, 1907 5
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 18
Pneumonia 18
Polio-encephalitis 18
Polio-myelitis 18
Population 4
Preservatives and Colouring Matter in
Food 51
Prevalence of Disease 14
Provision of Bedding, Tuberculous
Persons 29
Public Baths and Washhouses 66
Public Conveniences 66
Public Health Department Staff 59
Puerperal Fever 17
Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Midwifery
Centre and Ante-natal Clinic 37