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Kensington 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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The visiting in connection with tuberculosis and factories and workshops is dealt with in the
sections of this Report dealing with those subjects, and a complete record of the work performed
by each Woman Health Officer during the year appears in Table VII. of the Appendix.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
There are seven voluntary Infant Welfare Centres in Kensington, and the Borough has been
mapped out into a similar number of areas with one Centre in each, an attempt having been made
to place each home in the area of that Centre most accessible to the mother.
The principal duties of a Welfare Centre are those of an educational institution—providing
advice and teaching for the mothers in the care and management of little children with a view to
maintaining them in good health.
The guidance and teaching is both individual and collective. Individual advice is given at
the medical consultations and in the course of home visiting, collective advice being given to
mothers by simple class teaching.

Table: The following table shows the main items of work performed at each of the Centres curing the year:—

The following table shows the main items of work performed at each of the Centres curing the year:—

Particulars of Work done.Archer StreetBramley Road with Kenley Street branchCampden HillEarl's Court.GolborneLancaster RoadRaymedeTotals
1—No. of births occurring in the area of the Centre suitable for Welfare attention1496701423523573123422324
2—No. of sessions at which doctor attended for infant consultations99200911019792149829
3—No. of sessions at which doctor attended for special ante-natal consultations23—126*—2146108
4—Total number of individual mothers who attended during the year424772105983353913902515
5—Number of individual mothers who attended ante-natal sessions during the year60582351344099365
6—Total number of individual children who attended during the year (Old)2234062002242391483071747
,, „ „(New)213513861592002552901716
7—Number seen by doctor at consultations—
1. Ante-natal mothers989255139†107162221874
2. Post-natal mothers2244845184259698152040
3 Children244645672003314519832245422320612
8—Average number seen by doctor at consultations—
1. Ante-natal mothers4.2—511—7.74.8_—
2. Post-natal mothers22.4—22.5.75.4—
3. Children24.72222312024.428—
9—Number of individual children weighed during the year4369192052154394035973214
10—Total weighings307665692022412638812946783730457
11—Number of first visits paid by salaried workers to—
1. Expectant mothers5118615682058179577
2. Children60141059—84—272
12—Total number of home visits paid by salaried workers to—
1. Expectant mothers8724567150241424161131
2. Children28461599113113277871258294111889
13—Number of home visits paid to children by voluntary workers —
1. First visits—————57—57
2. Total visits—252—6104112—474

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*Sessions commenced in May, 1922.
†Some of these mothers attended infant consultations before ante-natal consultations were commenced.
Infant Consultation Sessions are held by medical officers in the afternoons; the sessions begin
about 2 p.m. and continue until 4 or 5 p.m. At five of the Centres there are two sessions per
week; at Raymede there are three and at Bramley Road three, in addition to the one weekly
session at the Branch in Kenley Street.