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The Committee have recently approved plans for the erection of a modern out-patient
department, together with an in-patient block, which will provide accommodation in two main
wards and several observation wards for thirty beds. The building of this first instalment
will be commenced shortly. The money secured by the Committee up to date amounts
roughly to £34,000, but another £46,000 must be collected before the hospital can be completed.
When the institution in Church Street closed down on the 31st August, 1925, the Committee
of Management recognised that the children in North Kensington would be seriously handicapped
in regard to their health unless some provision were made for their treatment during the interval
before the opening of the new hospital. They therefore rented a Parish Room in St. Mark's Road,
North Kensington, which was opened as a temporary out-patient department on the 21st September,
1925.
The work carried out during the year is as follows :—
Number of new patients treated at Church Street from the 1st January, 1925, to
the 31st August, 1925 1,062
Total number of attendances at Church Street from the 1st Jaunary, 1925 to the
31st August 5,502
Number of new patients treated at St. Mark's Road from the 21st September, 1925,
to the 31st December, 1925 614
Total number of attendances at St. Mark's Road from the 21st September, 1925,
to the 31st December, 1925 2,560
At the present time the staff engaged at the St. Mark's Road temporary out-patient department
is as follows ;—
Honorary Medical Officers 5
Resident Medical Officers 1
Dispenser 1
Sister-in-Charge 1
SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE.
Dr. Menzies, the County Medical Officer, has kindly made it possible for me to give the
following particulars of the routine medical examination of elementary school children carried out
in 1925 in Kensington.