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Kensington 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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| Name of Welfare Centre at which the dried milk was distributed | No. of 1lb. packets sold. | Value of milk sold. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | |||||
| Golborne | 128 | 12 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Raymede | 2,005 | 185 | 18 | 4 | ||
| Bramley Road | 1,148 | 98 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Lancaster Road | 766 | 68 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Archer Street | 1,660 | 155 | 13 | 7 | ||
| Earl's Court | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 | ||
| — | 5,712 | 520 | 8 | 9 | ||
| No. of Dinners granted. | Price per Dinner paid by Recipients. | Cost to Council. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | |||
| 540 | Free | 13 | 10 | 0 |
| 180 | 2d. | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 10 | 0 | ||
The Mutual Registration of Assistance Society (a branch of the Charity Organisation Society)
have been of considerable help to the Council's Milk Sub-Committee in providing information
of the assistance being given by other bodies to applicants for milk at a reduced price or free of
cost, and the Council acknowledge the value of the work by making an annual grant of £10 to the
Society.
The Council's Milk Sub-Committee work in close co-operation with the Board of Guardians
and a scheme has been formulated whereby milk and dinners recommended by the Milk SubCommittee
are supplied by the Board to certain nursing mothers who are already in receipt of Poor
Law relief. This scheme obviates the undesirable practice of a person being granted a somewhat
similar form of relief by two different authorities.
The dried milk and dinners supplied during the year by the Board of Guardians under this scheme are shown below:—
| No. of packets of Dried Milk supplied. | Cost to the Board of Guardians. | No. of Dinners supplied. | Cost to the Board of Guardians. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | £21 | 15 | 6 | 203 | £5 | 1 | 6 |
NOTE.— The figures for fresh milk supplied by the Guardians after recommendation by the Milk [Sub-Committee cannot be given
separately.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, requires the Medical Officer of Health of
every District Council to report specifically on the workshops and workplaces in his district, and
to send a copy of his annual report to the Secretary of State. The total number of workshops on
the Council's register is 1,383. Workshops where men only are employed are placed under the
supervision of the Sanitary Inspector in whose district they are situated; workshops where women
are employed are inspected by the Women Health Officers, who also visit the premises of
home-workers and inspect the sanitary conveniences reserved for women in railway stations and
other public places in Kensington. The factories in the Borough number 289, and are inspected
and regulated by H.M. Inspectors under the Home Office. The Sanitary Inspectors of the
Borough Council are, however, required to ensure the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary
conveniences in factories as well as in workshops.
The Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops) Order, 1921, transfers, from the Secretary
of State to the Minister of Health, the powers and duties under Sections 61, 97, 98, 99, 100, 109
and 110 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.
Section 61 provides that the occupier of a factory or workshop shall not knowingly allow a
woman or girl to be employed therein within four weeks after she has given birth to a child.
This Section is extended to laundries by Section 103 of the Act.
In his circular letter No. 235, the Minister of Health has expressed the hope that the Council
will assist occupiers of factories, workshops and laundries in observing the provisions of this
Section, so far as they are in a position to do so.