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Disinfection.—The rooms disinfected after infectious disease numbered 757.
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 20 tons.
Four hundred and fifty-three library books were disinfected.
Schools.—A total of 2,070 notices relating to cases of infectious disease was despatched to the
Head Teachers of the various schools attended by patients or their "contacts," 451 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, 235 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 28 existing drains were tested and found water-tight, and 110 defective drains
were wholly or partly reconstructed.
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS.
Two hundred and fifty-eight plans were submitted for drainage works in existing buildings.
In connection therewith 420 letters were despatched.
No summonses were issued for failure to supply plans.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Orders were made under Section 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, with respect to
new drainage systems to which the following groups of buildings were to be connected:—
Bathurst Mews, Nos. 18; 19 and 20; Nos. 61 and 62.
Westbourne Terrace, Nos. 79 and 81; Nos. 103 and 105.
Chester Place, Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
Burlington Mews West, Nos. 17 and 19.
Hereford Mews, Nos. 7 and 8.
Frederick Close, Nos. 1 and 1a.
Sussex Gardens, Nos. 35, 37 and 39.
Brook Mews North, Nos. 24 and 24a; Nos. 27 and 28.
Sussex Gardens, No. 73; and Westbourne Street, No. 11.
Craven Road, No. 31; and Brook Mews North, No. 18.
Lancaster Street, Nos. 14 and 14a.
Hyde Park Gardens Mews, Nos. 14 and 14a.
Praed Street, Nos. 37 and 39.
Westbourne Terrace, No. 42; and Gloucester Mews, No. 42.
New cinema and car park or building situate on the south side of Harrow Road, on the sites of premises
formerly numbered and known as Nos. 25 to 49 (odd, inclusive) Harrow Road, and certain properties
at the rear in Irongate Wharf Road.
New block of shops and residential flats over, or building, situate on the south-west side of Maida Vale,
and on the sites previously numbered and known as Nos. 229 to 237 (odd, inclusive), Maida Vale.
New block of shops with flats over, or building, situate on the south side of Harrow Road, and on the sites
of premises formerly numbered and known as Nos. 53, 55, 57; and the Salvation Army Hall, Harrow
Road; and Nos. 25-31 (odd, inclusive); and the petrol filling station. Irongate Wharf Road,
Four new houses with garage, or building, situate on the south-west side of Sussex Square, on the sites
of the premises formerly numbered and known as Nos. 23, 24 and 25, Sussex Square; No. 9, Bathurst
Street; and Nos. 2 and 3, Sussex Mews West.