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PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
As in past years, the Kensington District Nursing Association continued to carry out
professional nursing in the homes of the poor. The number of cases nursed during 1933 was
2,115 and the number of visits paid 47,211.

For the splendid services rendered, the council paid to the association in 1933 a grant of £300.
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 636 confinements, of which 567 were in Kensington homes.
The borough council maintain a maternity home with ten beds, the London county council have
at St. Mary Abbots Hospital 48 beds for the confinement of poor women, and the Princess Beatrice
Hospital in South Kensington has a maternity ward.
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.
LEGISLATION IN FORCE LOCALLY.
Notification of Zymotic Enteritis.
At a meeting of the council on the 15th April, 1924, it was resolved:—
"That this council do, under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 56 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, hereby order that Section 55 of the said Act, with respect to the notification of
infectious disease, shall apply in their district to epidemic diarrhoea or zymotic enteritis in the case of
infants up to 5 years of age."
With the information secured by compulsory notification it was possible to take effective steps
in regard to prevention and treatment of the disease, and in 1924 the council approved of a scheme
for this purpose.
A detailed report on notification and treatment of zymotic enteritis will be found on page 55.
Notification of Acute Rheumatism.
The Kensington (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations, 1927, came into force on the 1st October
of that year and operated for a period of three years. In 1930 and again in 1933 the Minister of
Health renewed the regulations for a further period of three years.
By-law Prohibiting the Fouling of Footpaths by Dogs.
In 1921 the council made a by-law, which was sanctioned by the Home Office, prohibiting
the fouling of footpaths by dogs.
Three officers in the public health department make observations under the by-law, and during
the year 13 breaches of the by-law were reported to the public health committee. Summonses
were taken out and fines of 20s. in three cases and 10s. in ten cases were imposed.
The number of convictions under this by-law during the past 12 years is 94.