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District Nursing Association.
The nurses attended 72 cases and paid 750 visits. They sent 5 cases into hospital; one died (referred
to above) and four recovered. No death occurred in the home while the nurses were in attendance.
The full routine treatment was carried out in 38 cases. Rectal washouts were given in 29 cases.
Eight doctors availed themselves of the nurses' assistance in their cases.
Health Visitors' Notes.
There were 59 notifications during the year. The severe cases numbered 29, and those which had
a mild attack numbered 30. There were 38 infants under one year of age, and 21 aged one year and over.
Infection in Families.
Two cases of diarrhoea occurred in each of two families. In all the other notifications, the patient
was the only case in the family. In three instances two cases occurred in the same house.
Diet.
In the majority of cases, the food which was most frequently associated with diarrhoea was ordinary
fluid cows' milk.
(Signed) Ronald Carter.
Dysentery.—Six cases of dysentery were notified. Three were of the amoebic type and three
were infected with the Sonne organism. Two of the cases of amoebic dysentery were contracted abroad.
Two of the Sonne cases occurred in private houses and were treated at home ; the third case was
contracted in hospital.
Acute Rheumatism.—Twenty-eight cases were notified. During the year 31 children suffering
from this disease were removed to hospital for treatment.
The seventh annual report on the working of the rheumatism scheme during the period 1st
October, 1934, to 30th September, 1935, prepared by the physicians in charge of the centre and the
medical officer of health, appears as Appendix I to this report.
Other Notifiable Diseases.—With the exception of tuberculosis, which is dealt with in a separate
section, no notifiable infectious.diseases, other than those to which reference has been made, were
notified.
Non-notifiable Diseases.
Measles.—There were no deaths from measles in Kensington. The women health officers paid
68 visits to measles patients. Thirty-seven cases were removed to the London county council
hospitals.
Whooping cough.—There were three deaths from this cause. The deaths in the three preceding
years were 26, 10 and 36. The women health officers paid 319 visits to cases of this disease. The
number of cases admitted to hospitals from Kensington was 117.
In 1930, the council authorised the medical officer of health to open special whooping cough
clinics if the disease appeared in epidemic form in the borough, and for this purpose a sum of £100
has been provided in the council's estimates each year. The arrangements provide for the clinics to
be opened at the baby clinic at No. 92, Tavistock Road, and at the Kenley Street minor ailment
centre. There was no occasion to open a clinic in 1935.

The clothing worn by persons on their visit to the medicinal baths is disinfected, together
with such other articles of clothing as the patients may bring. Altogether 11,931 articles were so
dealt with and, in addition, 653 blankets and sheets, and 353 articles of night clothing.
Of the 4,420 school children cleansed at the medicinal baths, only 438 were compulsory cases ;
the remainder attended voluntarily.