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Paddington and St. Marylebone War Pensions Committee Mr. S. G. Last, J.P. (Chairman).
Kensal House School Care Committoe ,, ,, Mrs. R. M. Drury, J. P.
,, ,, ,, Miss E. M. Kerr.
Paddington and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association Miss A. M. Bennett.
Public Assistance Committee Area VI Mrs. C. Taylor.
Panel Committee Dr. S. Crown.
St. Mary's Hospital Dr. A. B. Porteous (Tuberculosis Officer).
,, ,, Sister E. M. Phillips.
Red Cross Emergency Fund Mrs. M. R. Cordon.
Local Social Worker Mr. J. E. Bennison.
,, ,, ,, Miss H. C. Davidson.
Paddington and St. Marylebone Employment Committee Mr. A. E. Goss.
The Medical Officer of Health continued to act as Honorary Secretary to the Committee.
The social work of the Tuberculosis Care Committee is ancillary to the work of the Public Health
Committees of the Borough Council and London County Council in the sphere of the prevention and
treatment of tuberculosis.
The Committee met on 12 occasions during the year, and two hundred and forty-nine individual cases were considered.
Residential treatment was granted by the London County Council to 197 patients, 33 of whom
were children under the age of 16 years.
No funds are available in tihe hands of the Committee for the assistance of patients, but in
several instances help was sought from voluntary agencies for the patient or dependents.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The staff engaged in maternity and ohild welfare work consists of a Superintendent Health
Visitor, 10 whole-time Health Visitors, one of whom also acts as Child Protection Visitor and one
as Maternity Almoner, 10 (latterly 9) part-time Visiting Medical Officers, 3 part-time Masseuses,
and 1 full-time Clerical Assistant.
Health Visitors.
The duties of these officers are:—
(1) To visit the homes of children from birth up to the age of 5 years where considered necessary.
(2) To make enquiries concerning stillbirths and deaths of infants and young children.
(3) To visit and give advicc to parents in cases of ophthalmia of the new-born, infective enteritis and other important diseases.
(4) To investigate all cases of puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia.
(5) To attend the maternity and infant consultations at the Centres provided by the Paddington School for Mothers.
The home visiting work performed by the Health Visitors during the year is summarised in the appended table:—
Health Visiting.
First Visits to children under 1 year of age 1,577
Revisits ,, ,, ,, 6,874
8,451
Visits to children between the ages of 1 and 5 years 8,732
First visits to expectant mothers 1,113
Revisits ,, ,, 611
1,724
Other Visits—
Sickness (including Puerperal Fovor, Puerperal
Pyrexia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Infantile
Diarrhoea)241
Miscellaneous (including 4,071 ineffective calls) 11,355
11,596
The total number of children on the Health Visitors' lists at the close of the year was 4.563,