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decided not to proceed further with the scheme, but to concentrate
on the provision of a modern children's hospital which could be
worked in conjunction with the new Maternity Home from a
common administrative block. This will be both an economic
and a practical method of dealing with the subject.
The Children's Hospital will serve the School Medical Service
to a greater extent than that of Infant Welfare, though it
will provide for infant ailments requiring hospital treatment. I
hope, however, that the time will come in Ilford when there will
be one Committee responsible for all matters affecting the health
of the child, both before and during school age. Such an
arrangement would tend both to efficiency and to economy of
labour.