The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1926.
- Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![71 These institutions are mainly supported by (1) voluntary contributions, (2) grants from the Ministry of Health, and (3) grants from the Borough Council. The medical and nursing staffs are engaged by the Voluntary Committees. A Woman Health Officer is attached to each Welfare Centre and, except at Campden Hill, has an office on the premises where she keeps her records and in which she arranges home visiting work in consultation with the staff and the Voluntary Committee. The principal duties of a Welfare Centre are those of an educational institution—providing advice and teaching for the mothers in the care and management of little children with a view to maintaining them in good health. The work done at the Infant Welfare Centres during the year 1926 is shown in the following table :— Particulars of Work done. Archer Street. Bramley Road with Kenley Street Branch. Camp den Hill. Earl's Court. Gol borne. Lan caster Road. Rav mede. Totals. 1—No. of births occurring in the area of the Centre suitable for Welfare attention 106 593 135 281 341 316 240 2032 2—No. of sessions at which doctor attended for infant consultations 94 200 96 101 97 134 98 820 3—No. of sessions at which doctor attended for special ante-natal consultations 24 25 11 13 – 21 24 118 4—Total number of individual mothers who attended during the year 363 666 67 212 492 702 238 2740 5—Number of individual mothers who attended ante-natal sessions during the year 49 69 27 77 40 42 55 359 6—Total number of individual children who attended during the year ... (Old) 156 363 92 194 303 414 462 1984 .. (New) 219 402 90 160 348 296 193 1698 7—Total attendances at Centra of mothers for all purposes. (Excluding the accompanying of children and for the purpose of buying dried milk or other article) 712 1775 730 744 2164 3812 2557 12494 8—Total attendances at Centre of children for all purposes 3482 6657 1936 3320 5770 8259 7031 36455 9—Total attendances at dinners (Included in Nos. 7 and 8 above)— ]. Mothers 930 2019 2949 2. Children – 2195 2195 10—Total attendances at doctors' consultations— 1. Ante-natal mothers 144 167 78 171 79 271 159 1069 2. Post-natal mothers 171 367 9 219 429 176 271 1642 3 Children 2595 4908 1899 2859 2793 4037 3073 22194 11- -Average attendances at doctors' consultations— 1. Ante-natal mothers 6 7 7 13 – 1 6 — 2. Post-natal mothers 2 2 2 4 13 3 3. Children 27 25 20 28 23 30 31 12—Number of individual children weighed during the year 375 764 182 194 651 680 655 3501 13—Total weighings 2931 6380 1916 3193 4856 6326 6225 31827 14—Number of first visits paid by salaried workers 1. Expectant mothers 18 94 34 10 88 83 112 439 2. Children 15 16 139 12 — — — 182 15—Total number of home visits paid by salaried workers to— 1. Expectant mothers 93 161 65 22 216 120 228 905 2. Children 1725 1306 863 1736 4115 1401 2173 13319 16—Number of home visits paid to children by vnlnntarv workers — 1. First visits – – – – – – 2. Total visits – 182 – – – – – 182 Une interesting observation on the above table is the number of children seen at each doctor's consultation. It is generally recognised that a doctor cannot satisfactorily deal with more than 26 to 30 children at one session and it will be seen in item No. 11 that the average numbers dealt with varied from 20 to 31.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18222006_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
