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4. Medical Mission Nurse. Nurse Trender attends
Medical Mission cases.
5. St. John's Church Nurse. Attends similar cases
to the above.
Other useful institutions and organizations in the Borough
are:—
The Creche in Albury Street.—Hon. Medical Officer,
Dr. Elmslie Crabbe.
The Duchess of Albany's Deptford Fund.
Charity Organization Society.— Secretary, Miss
Butcher, 11 Amersham Road.
Rescue workers.
Mutual Registration Offices, 11 Amersham Road.
Deptford Clinic.—This work is carried on at 353
Evelyn Street and at Deptford Green. The treatment of
children is undertaken, including the removal of tonsils and
adenoids in a properly constructed operating theatre, open
air treatment, dental clinic, infant consultations and school
for mothers. Much excellent work is done under the
management of Miss McMillan with the help of two
honorary medical officers, an honorary dental surgeon, a
qualified teacher of physical culture and a trained nurse.
The London County Council have recognised Miss
McMillan's good work and have now given her a small
grant.
FLIES AND INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the summer of 1911 we have had an excess of
Summer diarrhoea, and although it is recognised that flies play
an important part in the dissemination of disease, it is a strange
fact that although we have had an exceedingly hot summer the