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ADMINISTRATION
Staff of the Department.—A complete list of the Staff of the Department appears on page 4.
The following changes occurred during the year.
Visiting Medical Officers.
Dr. A. S. Hall resigned his appointment as Visiting Medical Officer in April, and his Session
at St. David's Church Hall was carried on until the end of the year by Dr. E. D. Fenwick.
Clerks.
Mr. I. D. Clarke was appointed Junior (Class 5) Clerk on the 25th February, and he took up
his duties on the 16th March.
Sanitary Inspectors.
The appointments of Messrs. J. J. Atkinson, G. Duncan and A. J. Shelley on the 25th June
brought the number of permanent Inspectors to 13. Two of these appointments were to replace
temporary Inspectors, and one as an additional Food, etc., Inspector. There are still three temporary
Inspectors engaged.
Health Visitors.
There were no alterations in or additions to the Health Visiting Staff during the year. The
Council, on the 29th October, however, decided to appoint two additional Health Visitors to enable
a more intensive visitation of children of pre-School age to be carried out in conformity with suggestions
contained in the Circular 1550 of the Ministry of Health, dated 26th May, 1936. These
new officers will take up duty as from the 1st April, 1937.
Westbourne Day Nursery.
Miss Doris Knott was appointed Matron on the 4th February, 1936, and Miss Evelyn Johnson
Staff Nurse on the 24th March. The former took up non-resident duties on the 4th Marah and
assisted in the preliminary details necessary to establish the Nursery. Miss Johnson commenced
on the 1st May, when the residential arrangements were complete.
Prevention of infectious Disease.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease
numbered 1,766. 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 745.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St. Marylebone
District Nursing Association, 203 patients (comprising 121 cases of measles, 77 of pneumonia,
2 of ophthalmia neonatorum and 3 of whooping cough) were visited in their homes by the nurses of
the Association. The visits paid to such patients numbered 2,727.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 770.
The weight of bedding, etc., removed for disinfection at the Wood Lane Disinfecting Station,
under the agreement with the Kensington Borough Coucil, amounted to approximately 19 tons.
Three hundred and fifty-eight library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 2,247 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched to the
Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their "contacts," 1,713 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, 323 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.I, 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.