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ADMINISTRATION.
GENERAL.
Staff of the Department.—The following changes occurred during the year:—
Inspectorial.
Mr. C. S. Wansbrough retired from the Council's service on 1st July, from which date Mr. C. G.
Heron and Mr. V. L. Ronchetti, members of the existing staff, were respectively appointed Senior
Sanitary Inspector and Canal Boats Inspector.
Mr. A. C. Harrison was appointed Sanitary Inspector on 24th April.
Mr. L. G. Brooks was appointed Sanitary Inspector on 26th June.
An additional temporary Sanitary Inspector was engaged as from 20th August in connection with
the housing survey of the Borough.
Health Visiting.
Miss C. G. Teale and Miss N. B. May resigned their positions as Health Visitors on 18th February
and 17th December respectively, and Miss E. E. Bogle retired on 21st August.
Miss C. McN. Keachie, Miss G. E. Stephens and Miss N. M. Hill were appointed Health Visitors
on 24th April, 26th June and 18th December, respectively.
Clerical.
Miss I. C. Webb, previously part-time Clerical Assistant at the Welfare Centre, was appointed
to a full-time position on the permanent stafE as from 26th March.
Mr. S. W. Wordingham was appointed Junior Clerk on 20th March.
Prevention of Infectious Disease.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease
numbered 3,449. This figure excludes visits in connection with tuberculosis, puerperal fever and
pyrexia, ophthalmia neonatorum and infective enteritis, which are recorded elsewhere in this report.
The removals to hospitals and other institutions for various diseases other than tuberculosis
numbered 1,205.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St. Marylebone
District Nursing Association, 135 patients (comprising 86 cases of measles, 46 of pneumonia and 3 of
ophthalmia neonatorum) were visited in their homes by the nurses of the Association. The visits
paid to such patients numbered 1,994.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 960.
The weight of bedding, etc., removed for disinfection at the Wood Lane Disinfecting Station,
under the agreement with the Kensington Borough Council, amounted to approximately 19¾ tons.
Four hundred and seventy-four library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 2,982 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched to the
Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their "contacts," 2,224 of such notices
referring to cases of measles and chicken-pox, and the remainder to cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever
and other notifiable diseases. In addition, 295 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 suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs
are undertaken by the Paddington Tuberculosis Dispensary, 20, Talbot Road.
The examinations made during 1934 were as follows:—
Disease suspected. Number of Examinations. Number of Positive Results.
Diphtheria 999 60
Tuberculosis 428 55
Typhoid Fever 2 —
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 2 —