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RHEUMATUSM SUPERVISORY CENTRE.
In October, 1927, the Borough Council established a Rheumatism Supervisory Centre at the
Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children for the supervision and treatment of children
suffering from acute rheumatism. Further information in regard to this centre will be found in
Appendix I of this report.
The record of work carried out at the centre during the year 1930 is as follows:—
Number of sessions held 49
Number of individual patients examined—
Kensington 282
Hammersmith 53
Other boroughs 16
Total attendances of patients—
Kensington 690
Hammersmith 114
Other boroughs 33
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
On the introduction of the Local Government Act, 1929, on the 1st April, 1930, the County
Council took over the control of the ambulance services hitherto maintained by the late Metropolitan
Asylums Board and Metropolitan Boards of Guardians. These two ambulance services are now
combined with that previously maintained by the London County Council for accidents and constitute
one large service under the direction of the County Council, who provide ambulances, free of
cost, for the conveyance to—
(a) Hospitals or private residences of:—
(i) persons meeting with accidents or suffering from sudden illnesses ;
(ii) parturient women, if the case is one of urgency, on the application of a qualified
medical practitioner or certified midwife, and
(iii) non-urgent cases of parturition, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. if letters
of admission to maternity hospitals are produced.
(b) The Council's fever hospitals of patients suffering from infectious disease.
(c) The Council's general hospitals and institutions of non-infectious cases when application
is made through the Council's Public Assistance Department.
The Borough Council have entered into an agreement with the County Council under which
the latter have agreed to remove, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m., non-urgent Kensington
maternity cases to hospitals at the request of the Borough Medical Officer of Health and the former
have agreed to pay the cost.
SCHOOL TREATMENT CENTRES.

The work of this centre has been slightly restricted during the last two or three years owing
to the transfer to the Princess Louise Hospital of patients requiring operations for tonsils and
adenoids and other surgical conditions. As the figures show, there is still plenty of work to be
carried out at the centre which is of great convenience to mothers of North Kensington who are
spared a long journey to the out-patient department of a hospital.