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hospital in the same manner as the service provided in the Ilford
Hospital Out-Patient Department. (2) Nursing treatment of
minor ailments.
It is hoped that further provision will be made to meet local
needs. It is not suggested that there should be provided the old
type of out-patient department with open doors to all comers,
resulting in congestion by persons attending for a bottle of medicine.
Much of this work should naturally be retained bv the medical
attendants of the patients, more particularly the panel patients.
There is much however that can be done locally for the benefit of
the residents. Daily, persons are attending the out-patient departments
of one or more of the London hospitals. This is timeconsuming
and the transport fares deplete the family income.
This area suffers particularly for another reason, in that the
residents here arc still largely strangers to each other. For a
mother to attend a hospital with one child frequently necessitates
taking the remaining children of the family with her, as she knows
no one with whom she can place them for the day.
It is hoped that the services provided at the out-patient department
will be extended to provide locally those advantages which
at present are obtainable only by journeying. This work need not
encroach on that already provided by the local medical practitioners,
its scope including such matters as operative removal of
tonsils and adenoids, massage clinics, dressings or massage of
post-operative cases, etc.
(2) Maternity.
Maternity cases from this district are admitted, by arrangement
with the Council, to Oldchurch Hospital and Queen Mary's
Hospital, Stratford.
Cases of Puerperal Fever or Pyrexia are admitted to Oldchurch
Hospital.
(3) Children. —
The following Table shows the hospitals at which the Council
has arranged that certain cases shall be treated.
Tonsils and Adenoids—Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford,
Out-patients only.
Oldchurch Hospital. In-patients
only.
King George Hospital, Ilford. Outpatients
or In-patients.