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RHEUMATISM 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 1933 is as follows:—
Number of sessions held 48
Number of individual patients examined—
Kensington 295
Hammersmith 56
Other boroughs 17
Total attendances of patients—
Kensington 1,170
Hammersmith 232
Other boroughs 73
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The London county council 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
(hi) non.urgent cases of parturition, between the hours of li p.m. and 8 a.m. if letters
of admission to maternity hospitals are produced;
(b) Fever hospitals of patients suffering from infectious disease ;
(c) General hospitals and institutions of non.infectious cases when application is made
through the county 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.

In addition there is a school treatment centre at the Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for
Children, and the particulars of the cases treated thereat during 1933 are as follows:—
Tonsils and adenoids 568
Eyes (new cases) 393
Dental cases 465
X-ray cases 14