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The cases attended and visits paid by the Golborne Home Nurse during the year are
given in the following table:—
Cases Attended.
Visits Paid.
Adults
54
283
Children under 5 years of age
330
2,224
Totals
384
2,507
Bronchitis
116
576
Ear Discharges
25
395
Minor Ailments
181
1,221
Measles
8
32
Totals
330
2,224
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 741 confinements, of which 650 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 nine ante-natal clinics at the Infant Welfare Centres and Baby Clinic, 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 1929 is as follows :—
Number of individual expectant women who attended the
ante-natal sessions 830
Number of Kensington cases 695
Number from other Boroughs 135
Total number of attendances of all ante-natal cases 2,373
The medical work at this ante-natal clinic is performed by the doctors of the Hospital.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
Ambulances for infectious, accident and maternity cases were provided by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, the Kensington Guardians and the London County Council, and during the year
the service proved efficient.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
No Health Exhibition was held during the past year, but much good propaganda work was
conducted. Lectures were given by the Council's Health Lecturer in Boys' and Girls' Departments
in the London County Council Schools and at Infant Welfare Centres, Girls Clubs,
Women's Clubs, etc., situated in Kensington. Films on health subjects, loaned by the Health
and Cleanliness Council, have been shown at many schools and clubs within the Borough.
A tribute must be paid to the teachers in the elementary schools for their valuable co-operation
in this work. It is largely owing to their splendid organisation and ready help that the lectures
and film displays have proved successful.