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PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Visiting.—Visits of enquiry after notification of infectious disease numbered 2,127. 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 749.
In connection with the arrangement between the Council and the Paddington and St. Marylebone
District Nursing Association, 95 patients (comprising 10 cases of measles, 80 of pneumonia, and
5 of whooping cough) were visited in their homes by the nurses of the Association. The visits paid to
such patients numbered 1,419.
Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 627.
The weight of bedding, etc., removed for disinfection at the Wood Lane Disinfection Station,
under the agreement with the Kensington Borough Council, amounted to approximately 19 tons.
Two hundred and forty-six library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 1,095 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched to the
Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their "contacts," 585 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, 206 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
infectious disease.
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 practitioners
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.

HOUSE DRAINAGE.
During the year 23 existing drains were tested and found water-tight, and 105 defective drains
were wholly or partly reconstructed.
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS.
Three hundred and seventy-one plans were submitted for drainage works in existing buildings.
In connection therewith 701 letters were despatched.
Six summonses were issued for failure to supply plans.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Orders were made under Section 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 11)36, with respect to
new drainage systems to which the following groups of buildings were to be connected:—
Princes Square, Nos. 64 and 65.
Bathurst Mews, Nos. 24 and 25; Nos. 18, 19 and 20.
Westbourne Street, Nos. 13, 14 and 15.
Sussex Square , No. 5, and Sussex Mews East, No. 14.
Inverness Terrace, Nos. 2 and 4 ; and Nos. 8 and 10.
Edgware Road, Nos. 405, 407 and 407a, and Wards Flats, Crompton Street.
Kensington Gardens Square, Nos. 86, 87, 88, 89 and 90.
Warrington Crescent, Nos. 37 and 39.
Eight new residential houses on the sites now numbered and known as Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12,
Southwick Place, and No. 6, Hyde Park Crescent, and the 15 garages at the rear thereof.