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The assessments made in respect of patients whose applications were accepted and not
withdrawn during the year amounted to £529 2s- Od- Payments made by patients totalled
£633 Os. 6d.
London County Council Hospitals.
Kensington patients are admitted to St- Mary Abbots, Hammersmith and Paddington L.C.C
hospitals, and a large number of Kensington women make use of this accommodation.
The county council, in order to establish a closer link between the borough council's clinics
and St- Mary Abbots hospital, have appointed the four medical officers concerned with the council's
maternity and child welfare scheme as honorary officers of the hospital.
Voluntary Hospitals.
The Princess Beatrice hospital, situated within the borough, admits many Kensington women
to its maternity ward, and other patients have entered Queen Charlotte's hospital, St. Mary's
hospital, St. George's hospital, and other maternity hospitals.
All the hospitals serving the borough send lists of the Kensington women booking for their
maternity wards to the medical officer of health in order that their patients may receive the benefit
of the home visiting carried out by the council's health visiting staff.
Domiciliary Midwifery.
During the course of the year the two private midwives remaining in Kensington retired from
practice, and, apart from the cases attended by doctors, domiciliary midwifery is now conducted
by midwives of the London county council and of Queen Charlotte's hospital in the northern area
of the borough A small number of cases are undertaken by St- Mary's hospital in connection with
the teaching of medical students, the maternity nursing of these patients being carried out by the
Kensington District Nursing Association- Excellent work has been carried out, and co-operation
with the ante-natal clinics has been most satisfactory.
Post-Natal Examination.
In addition to le council's post-natal clinic, weekly post-natal clinics are held at the borough
materuty home, at all the maternity hospitals and London county council hospitals serving the
borough, and at the Queen Charlotte's hospital district clinic at No- 240, Ladbroke Grove.
The importance of a careful routine post-natal examination in diminishing maternal invalidism
is now fully recognised and every woman is taught its necessity. At the council's clinic at No.
304, West bourne Grove, 50 sessions were held during 1938, at which 74 individual mothers attended.
This number is small, but it represents those cases not under the care of a private doctor or a hospital,
and ensures that post-natal facilities are available for every woman in Kensington.
The Baby Clinic, No. 92, Tavistock Road.
His institution serves as a treatment centre for all the infant welfare centres in the borough,
mothers and children being referred there for treatment. Dental work, minor operations, massage,
sunlight treatment, etc., are also carried out. Children attend daily for dressings. The medical
officers in charge of tne baby hospital conduct the sessions at the baby clinic, which renders it easy
for the cases needing in-patient treatment to obtain it.
Under an agreement with the London county council, the treatment of minor defects of schoolchildren
is carried out on the premises by the medical staff in charge of pre-school children. Thus,
continuous medical treatment is given by the same staff and in the same premises to children from
infancy to school-leaving age.