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Staff Medical Examinations.—Since the 24th June, 1946, medical examinations for the purposes of the
Council's Superannuation Scheme, formerly conducted by a private practitioner, have been undertaken
by the medical staff of the Public Health Department, and during 1948, 102 examinations were
carried out.
Laboratory Facilities.—Dr. C. J. C. Britton is the Council's Bacteriologist, and the work is carried out
at No. 121, Harley Street, W.l.
Mr. Thomas McLachlan, A.C.G.F.C., F.R.I.C., whose laboratory is situated at No. 4, Hanway
Place, W.l, is the Public Analyst for the Borough.
*Home Nursing.—The Paddington and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association continued to
provide adequate nursing services in the home under an arrangement made with the Council, and
visits were paid to cases (number shown within brackets) as follow: maternity 75 (4); midwifery
253 (37); measles and German measles 83 (11); mumps 10 (1); erysipelas 6 (1); pneumonia 49 (5);
tuberculosis 113 (4) ; shingles 14 (2); other ailments 117 (18); old age pensioners, 3,304 (87).
*Maternity and Child Welfare.—There are two maternity and child welfare centres: No. 1 in the
Town Hall Extension comprising ante-and post-natal, infant welfare, child guidance, artificial sunlight,
massage, and diphtheria immunisation clinics ; No. 2 at No. 217, Lisson Grove with provision for
ante- and post-natal, infant welfare, artificial sunlight, massage, dental, and foot clinics. In addition,
ante-and post-natal and infant welfare clinics held at the Middlesex Hospital form part of the Borough
scheme. Two part-time clinic nurses continued to relieve the health visitors of certain clinic duties
and thus enable them to devote more time to home visitation.

{ St. Marylebone residents attending the Middlesex Hospital.
*Student Health Visitors.—Student health visitors from the Royal College of Nursing and the National
Health Society were again accepted every three months to gain practical experience of a health
visitor's duties in the Council's welfare centres, etc.
*Visitors to Centres and Nurseries.—Among visitors who were afforded facilities for seeing the Council's
maternity and child welfare scheme at work and for visiting the welfare centres and day nurseries were
a party of wives of members of the Institute of Actuaries who came from various parts of the world
to the Institute's Centenary Assembly in London during June.
*Home Visits.—The six whole-time health visitors paid domiciliary visits as follow:{a) to expectant
mothers, first visits 256, total visits 433; (b) to children under 1 year of age, first visits 474, total
visits 1,631 : (c) to children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, total visits 1,508.
*Milk and Vitamin Products.—The Food Executive Officer has kindly provided the following
information as to dried milk supplied under the National Scheme: full cream, 5,770 20-oz. cartons
at 10½d. per carton; 122 cartons free: half cream, 376 cartons at 10½d. per carton; 7 cartons free.
* The information contained in these paragraphs relates to the period 1st January, 1948, to 4th July, 1948.