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The following are the records for 1937 :—
Sessions at which doctors attended for infant consultations 153
Sessions at which doctors attended for mothers'consultations 50
Individual mothers who attended 184
Individual children who attended (old) 261
Individual children who attended (new) 649
Attendances of mothers for all purposes (excluding the accompanying of
children) 840
Attendances of children for all purposes
0-1 year
1-5 years 8 550
Seen by doctor at consultations :—
Mothers 840
Children 3,548
Average number seen by doctor at consultations :—
Mothers 17
Children 23
Individual children weighed 910
Weighings. 10,854
Infant and Toddlers' Treatment Clinic.
In April, the borough council opened a treatment clinic for infants and toddlers on the premises
of the school treatment centre in Kenley Street. The sessions are conducted weekly and the
physician-in-charge is Dr. W. A. Hislop. The sessions are being well attended and are proving of
great assistance to the council's medical officers conducting the infant consultation sessions at the
Bramley Road and Kenley Street infant welfare centres. The following is a record of the work
carried out from the 1st April to the 31st December, 1937 :—
Sessions held
Individual patients treated, 0-1 year 216
„ „ 1-5 years ... 321
Attendances of patients at doctors' consultations 631
Average attendances at doctors'consultations 16
Total attendances for treatment, etc. 1,338
„ patients 0-1 year 750
1-5 years 588
The Baby In-Patient Hospital, No. 1, Ladbroke Square.
This institution acts as the in-patient department of the baby clinic. The wards are capable
of accommodating 30 beds. Four beds are reserved for children recommended by the Kensington
infant welfare centres, but all the beds are available for children belonging to the borough.
The three medical officers of the council who conduct the infant consultation sessions at the
infant welfare centres meet the medical staff of the baby hospital in consultation each week and
discuss the treatment and after-care of the Kensington infants in the hospital. The value of this
excellent co-operation between those responsible for the preventive treatment and those in charge
of the curative treatment of these children is very great.
The following is the record for 1937 :—
Infants in residence at commencement of the year ... ... 22
Admissions 266
Discharges 249
Deaths 16
Infants in residence at end of the year 23
Average duration of stay in hospital ... ... ... ... 29 days.
Orthopaedic Treatment.
In the course of the routine medical examination at the infant welfare centres, particular
attention has been paid to posture and the presence of orthopaedic deformities.
Infants presenting rachitic deformities are referred to the baby clinic, where they attend for
ultra-violet light and massage, the severe cases needing continuous splinting being admitted to the
baby hospital.
Knock knee and flat foot in the pre-school child and any congenital deformities needing operative
or manipulative treatment are referred to the orthopaedic clinic at the Princess Louise hospital.
From the South Kensington clinics, children needing orthopaedic treatment are referred to
the Princess Beatrice hospital or to the Victoria hospital for Children, Chelsea.