London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1925
The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1925
This page requires JavaScript
26
For the splendid services rendered, the Council paid to the Association in 1925 a grant of £200
The following is a table of cases attended and visits paid by nurses of the Kensington District Nursing Association on behalf of the Council from January 1st to December 31st, 1925:—
| Cases. | Visits. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Maternity Cases | 34 | 622 | |
| Pneumonia | 332 | 3,443 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum and other Inflammations of the Eyes of Newly-born Children | 38 | 477 | |
| Influenza | 31 | 166 | |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 58 | 588 | |
| Tuberculosis | 36 | 614 | |
| Measles | 236 | 2,277 | |
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 49 | |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 42 | |
| Totals | 772 | 8.278 | |
A trained nurse is employed by the Golborne Infant Welfare Centre to undertake home
nursing of expectant and nursing mothers and infants in the very poor area allocated to that Centre.
In order to avoid overlapping with the nurses of the Kensington District Nursing Association, the
work of the Golborne Home Nurse has been mapped out by the Honorary Secretary of the Golborne
Centre, the Superintendent of the Nursing Association and myself, and the rules laid down have
been found to work quite satisfactorily. Certain types of cases have been attended by the Golborne
Nurse and others by the nurses of the Association, and as a result of close co-operation and
consultation, there has been no trouble whatever in deciding the sphere of work for the staff of
each organisation.
The cases attended and visits paid by the Golborne Home Nurse during the past year are given in the following table :—
| Cases Atteuded. | Visits Paid. | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults | 60 | |
| Children under 5 years oi age | 276 | 2,400 |
| Bronchitis ... | 51 | 346 |
| Ear Discharges | 29 | 528 |
| Measles | 84 | |
| Minor Ailments | 178 | 1,442 |
MIDWIFERY ARRANGEMENTS.
The Borough is well served in this respect. The Queen Charlotte's Hospital Authorities
maintain a District Nurses' Home in Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington, and during the year
members of the staff thereat conducted 807 confinements, of which 751 were in Kensington
homes. The Borough Council maintain a Maternity Home with ten beds and the Guardians also
have a ward of ten beds for the confinement of poor women.
The number of confinements dealt with by these three organisations, together with those
taking place in outlying hospitals, leaves but a comparatively small number to be attended by
private doctors and midwives in the homes.
In addition to the six ante-natal clinics at the infant welfare centres in the Borough, a
similar clinic is maintained by the Queen Charlotte's Hospital authorities at their District Nurses'
Home, which is situated a little to the north of Ladbroke Grove Railway Station—a point easily
accessible to the majority of North Kensington mothers. The record of work at the Queen Charlotte's
Clinic for 1925 is as follows :—
Number of individual expectant women who attended the ante-natal
sessions 807
Number of Kensington cases 751
Number from other Boroughs 56
Total number of attendances of all ante-natal cases 2,392
The medical work at this ante-natal clinic is performed by the doctors of the Hospital.