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Kensington 1925

The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1925

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Table: TABLE SHOWING THE CONDITIONS IN REGARD TO CLOTHING, NUTRITION, CLEANLINESS, TEETH AND VISION OF THE CHILDREN EXAMINED.

TABLE SHOWING THE CONDITIONS IN REGARD TO CLOTHING, NUTRITION, CLEANLINESS, TEETH AND VISION OF THE CHILDREN EXAMINED.

Age Group.Number examined.Clothing and Boots.Nutrition.Cleanliness of Head.Cleanliness of BodyTeeth.Vision.
Good.Fair.Poor.Good.Average.Below normal.Bad.Clean.Nits.Pediculi,Clean.Dirty.Pediculi.All sound.Less than 4 decayed.Four or more decayed.6/6 in both eyes.6/9 in either or both eyes.6/12 or worse in either eye.
Entrants Boys93767625386785218-863713883513360376201---
Girls1,003760238511086528-8761151295449—399397207———
Age 8. Boys54139214185646421-50931149942_2931826626616585
Girls572385176114350821-448114105205112822117928617495
Age 12 Boys866550281359575615-81843580262248933839481229153
Girls887651228813073720-7281431683054351732842485235162
Age 14 Boys547365168148145015152124252324_35717317301128113
Girls531431982894357-47552450427—33118218294126108
Total5,8844,2101,583916715,06714515,238593535,51536093,0282,1876692,1131,057716
Kensington percentages71.626.91.511.486.12.589.010.10.993.76.10.251.437.211.454.427.218.4
London percentages60.138.61.321.172.96.091.08.30.795.34.60.161.830.28.053.926.319.8

Table: SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRES. There is in Notting Dale a School Treatment Centre managed by a voluntary committee anrl the work nerformed thereat durine 1925 is as follows :—

SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRES. There is in Notting Dale a School Treatment Centre managed by a voluntary committee anrl the work nerformed thereat durine 1925 is as follows :—

New Cases.Total attendances.
Eye Cases5861,521
Aural Cases4871,969
Minor Ailment Cases1,92828,361
Dental Case1,8463,140
X-Ray Cases74470

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A school Ireatment Centre has also been established at the rsaby Clinic premises in lavistocK
Crescent and the record of work for the year 1925 is as follows :—
Minor Ailment Cases 3,406 26,588
Dental Cases 981 1,274
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
The Borough is fortunate in having within its boundaries an excellent District Nursing
Association which employs a Superintendent and eleven nurses to carry out the nursing of all
diseases in the homes of the poor. The number of cases nursed during 1925 was 2,150 and the
number of visits paid, 40,156.
By an agreement between the Council and the Association, nurses of the latter body undertake,
when requested by the Medical Officer of Health, the home nursing of measles, german measles,
whooping cough, zymotic enteritis, tuberculosis and any other disease for which nursing
assistance is required. In addition, the Association retain a trained nurse who is also a
qualified midwife and who is available for the nursing of certain maternity and ophthalmia cases
in which it is inadvisable, from the point of view of the spread of infection, for the usual midwife to
continue in attendance.
The nurses carry out their work with enthusiasm and ability, and those doctors who are called
upon to attend the poor in the Borough appreciate very much the splendid assistance they get
from these trained women. They are always willing to attend at any time they are called upon,
and throughout the whole year the officers of the Public Health Department have not had one
case where a request for nursing assistance has not been met promptly, even in times of pressure.
The very important part the nurses take in connection with the Council's schemes for the
treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum and zymotic enteritis is referred to on pages 55 and 58 of
this report.