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Invalid Children's AiD Association.
A grant of £10 in aid of the funds of the local branch of the Invalid Children's Aid
Association was made.
Convalescent Home.
One nursing mother, with her baby, was admitted to St. Mary's Convalescent Home,
Birchington-on-Sea, for a period of two weeks. Part of the cost was borne by the Council,
and the remainder by the husband.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year five maternal deaths were enquired into by Dr. E. Dorothy Fenwick,
the Council's medical investigator, and reports thereon were forwarded to the Maternal
Mortality Committee of the Ministry of Health.
ADMINISTRATION.
GENERAL.
Staff of the Department.—Miss I. L. Buckledee, who had been engaged in the Council's
service as a temporary Sanitary Inspector since October 15th, 1928, following the
resignation of Miss Nicolas, was appointed a Sanitary Inspector on the permanent staff on
January 29th, 1929.
Prevention of Infectious Disease.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease
numbered 7,610. This fig jre excludes visits in connection with tuberculosis, which are recorded
elsewhere in this report.
The removals to hospitals and other institutions for various diseases other than tuberculosis
numbered 1,310.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St.
Marylebone District Nursing Association, 156 patients (comprising 19 cases of measles, 105 of
pneumonia, 28 of whooping-cough, and 4 of ophthalmia neonatorum) were visited in their homes
by the nurses of the Association. The visits paid to such patients numbered 2,035.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 1,335, including
204 rooms disinfected after tuberculosis.
The weight of bedding, etc., removed for disinfection at the Wood Lane Disinfecting
Station, under the agreement with the Kensington Borough Council, amounted to 27 tons.
One hundred and sixty library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 3,262 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched
to the Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their " contacts," 2,591
of such notices referring to cases of measles, whooping-cough and chicken-pox, and the remainder
to cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever and other notifiable diseases. In addition 492 reports were
sent to the medical officers of health of other boroughs in connection with cases attending
outlying schools.
Bacteriological Work.—The Council have arrangements with the Lister Institute of
Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, S.W.I, and the Royal Institute of Public Health
37, Russell Square, W.C.I, for the bacteriological examination, at the expense of the Council,
of specimens sent by medical practitioners of Paddington patients suspected to be suffering
from diphtheria or typhoid fever.
All specimens are collected at the Town Hall and transmitted to either Institute by
special messenger. The results are generally available the next morning, and are telephoned
to the medical practitioner concerned.
Examinations of sputa from patients suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis of the
lungs are undertaken by the Paddington Tuberculosis Dispensary, 20, Talbot Road.

House Drainage.—During the year 53 existing drains were tested and found water-tight.
97 defective drains were reconstructed and 5 made sound by special process.