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ADMINISTRATION.
GENERAL.
Staff of the Department.—Mr. C. Lawrence, Sanitary Inspector, retired from the Council's
service on November 7th, 1931. In consequence of his illness earlier in the year, and that of
Mr. F. J. Pallet, Meat and Food Inspector, it became necessary in the month of August to
engage two temporary Sanitary Inspectors, who at the close of the year were still working in
the Department.
Miss I. L. Buckledee resigned her appointment as Sanitary Inspector on November 30th.
The vacancy was filled by the transfer of Miss D. Newhall from the Council's health visiting
staff.
From July 1st, Miss E. E. Bogle, Miss F. E. Stammers, Miss M. Sells, Miss H. Waite, Miss
E. C. Jackson and Miss N. B. May, who had previously been in the service of the Paddington
School for Mothers, became Health Visitors on the permanent staff of the Council, and the
services of Miss E. Elsley were retained as a temporary part-time Health Visitor. At the
close of the year there was one vacancy on the health visiting staff occasioned by the transfer
of Miss D. Newhall to the inspectorial staff. A temporary Visitor was engaged pending the
appointment of a permanent officer.
The appointment of Mr. T. E. Rainger as Vaccination Officer necessitated the addition
to the staff of a Junior Clerk. Mr. H. J. A. Parker was appointed to that position as from
August 4th.
Prevention of Infectious Disease.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease
numbered 5,405. This figure 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 1,180.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St.
Marylebone District Nursing Association, 187 patients (comprising 97 cases of measles, 78 of
pneumonia, 6 of whooping-cough, and G of ophthalmia neonatorum) were visited in their homes
by the nurses of the Association. The visits paid to such patients numbered 2,076.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 1,080, including
213 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 nearly
25 tons.
Four hundred and twenty-one library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 3,028 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched
to the Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their " contacts," 2,271
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 292 reports were
sent to the medical officers of health of other boroughs in connection with cases attending
outlying schools.
Bacteriological Work.—The Council have an arrangement with 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 the 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.