Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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Table of Cases attended and Visits paid by Nurses of the Kensington District Nursing Association from January 1st, 1922, to December 31st, 1922.
Cases. | Visits. | |
---|---|---|
Maternity Cases | 45 | 668 |
Pneumonia | 129 | 2,274 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum and other Inflammations of the Eyes of Newly-born Children | 38 | 974 |
Influenza | 94 | 1,100 |
Infantile Diarrhœa | 18 | 250 |
Tuberculosis | 41 | 996 |
Diphtheria Suspect | 1 | 3 |
Measles | 40 | 500 |
Septicæmia | 4 | 40 |
Whooping Cough | 9 | 105 |
Polio-myelitis | 1 | 5 |
Totals | 420 | 6,915 |
GRANT TO HOSPITALS, ETC. In addition to the previously mentioned subscription to the Nursing Association, the Council, during the past 12 months, made the following grants:—
£. | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
West London Hospital | 10 | 10 | 0 |
Kensington and Fulham General Hospital | 5 | 5 | 0 |
St. Mary's Hospital | 10 | 10 | 0 |
Paddington Green Children's Hospital | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Kensal Gospel and Medical Mission | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Chelsea Hospital for Women | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Brompton Hospital for Consumption | 10 | 10 | 0 |
Kensington District Nursing Association | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Grants sanctioned by the Minister of Health under the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme are shown on page 34.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year 252 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 87 cases of non-pulmonary
tuberculosis were notified.
The following Table shows the number of cases of both forms of the disease notified in the Borough and the several Wards therein during each year since 1913.
District. | Years. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1913. | 1914. | 1915. | 1916. | 1917. | 1918. | 1919. | 1920. | 1921. | 1922. | |
The Borough | 849 | 564 | 429 | 543 | 432 | 582 | 407 | 374 | 339 | |
North Kensington | 642 | 516 | 423 | 300 | 406 | 331 | 445 | 294 | 272 | 233 |
South Kensington | 138 | 133 | 127 | 137 | 137 | 113 | ||||
Wards. | ||||||||||
St. Charles | 146 | 117 | 93 | 75 | 113 | 79 | 104 | 70 | 48 | |
Golborne | 176 | 147 | 106 | 124 | 150 | 89 | ||||
Norland | 190 | 134 | 79 | 99 | 124 | 93 | 76 | |||
Pembridge | 78 | 49 | 40 | 67 | 52 | 67 | 43 | 37 | 29 | |
Holland | 37 | 35 | 43 | 31 | 41 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 29 | |
Earl's Court | 51 | 40 | 29 | 40 | 35 | 20 | 31 | 25 | 24 | 24 |
Queen's Gate | 34 | 17 | 14 | 20 | 23 | 15 | 15 | |||
Redcliffe | 39 | 31 | 35 | 27 | 23 | 33 | 25 | 19 | 23 | |
Brompton | 25 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 15 | |||||
Ward Unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - |
From this table, it will be seen that notifications of tuberculosis are diminishing in number
year by year in all parts of the Borough.