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ADMINISTRATION.
GENERAL.
Staff of the Department.—On the 31st January, 1933, Miss E. Z. Amor was appointed Sanitary
Inspector in succession to Miss L. M. O'Kell, whose retirement from the Council's service was recorded
in the last report.
Mr. T. Mitchell, Senior Sanitary Inspector, died on the 16th February, 1933. He had been in
the service of the Council for 34 years. The vacancy on the stall was filled by the appointment of
Mr. A. J. Fisher on the 25th July, 1933. Mr. C. S. Wansbrough, Workshops and Canal Boats Inspector,
was designated Senior Sanitary Inspector.
Miss M. E. Lockington, an Infant Protection Visitor on the staff of the London County Council,
was transferred to the service of the Borough Council on the 1st April, 1933.
Miss E. A. S. Davies, Health Visitor, was promoted to the newly created position of Superintendent
Health Visitor on the 30th May, 1933, and Miss P. E. Blake was appointed Health Visitor on the
25th July, 1933.
With a view to expediting a survey of the Borough for purposes of the Housing Act, 1930, two
temporary Sanitary Inspectors were engaged in November, 1933.
Prevention of Infectious Disease.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease
numbered 3,048. 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 1,124.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St. Marylebone
District Nursing Association, 93 patients (comprising 29 cases of measles, 54 of pneumonia, 8 of
whooping-cough, and 2 of ophthalmia neonatorum) were visited in their homes by the nurses of the
Association. The visits paid to such patients numbered 1,290.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 969.
The weight of bedding, etc., removed for disinfection at the Wood Lane Disinfecting Station,
undel the agreement with the Kensington Borough Council, amounted to just over 23¼ tons.
Four hundred and fifty-five library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 1,758 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched to the
Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their "contacts," 874 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, 173 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, 23, Queen Square, W.C.1, for the bacteriological examination, at the expense of the Council,
of specimens sent by medical practitioners from 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 suSering from tuberculosis of the lungs
are undertaken by the Paddington Tuberculosis Dispensary, 20, Talbot Road.
The examinations made during 1933 were as follows:—
Disease suspected. Number of Examinations. Number of Positive Results.
Diphtheria 1,091 98
Tuberculosis 365 47
Typhoid Fever 12 5