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porter and cleaners. The appointment of a third probationer may be
necessary when all the beds in the wards are occupied.
The Dental (Maternity and Child Welfare and Tuberculosis) and
Bow Artificial Sunlight clinics were transferred to the new centre at the
beginning of August and one of the Infant Welfare clinics was transferred
from Old Ford early in 1928.
From the 11th November to the end of the year 10 patients were
admitted to the wards for treatment and 8 were remaining at the end of
the year.
The scheme for admission of cases to the wards is as follows:—
Scheme for Admission to Wards.
(1) Dr. Vertue, the Consulting Physician, will be in attendance at
the Ward on Friday afternoons, from 2.30 p.m. till 4.30 p.m.
(2) Admissions to the Wards are to be confined to infants suffering
from marasmus, prematurity, debility at birth, atrophy, inanition,
disorders of digestion and other like ailments.
In special cases a mother and baby may be admitted for the purpose
of the establishment of breast feeding.
Cases may be recommended for admission by the Medical Officers of
the Welfare Centres of the Borough. The final decision as to admission
in any particular case will rest with the Consulting Physician in charge
of the Wards.
(3) The cases are to be selected by the Clinic Medical Officers, who
will address a communication to Dr. Vertue (the Consulting Physician
at the Wards, Wellington Road), giving their reasons for so referring the
patient and stating whether it is a case for: (a) Possible admission to
the Wards, or (6) Opinion only. The letter will be handed to the parent,
or Guardian, with instructions to take it, together with the patient, to
the Observation Wards, Wellington Road, Bow, on Friday afternoons,
at 2 p.m. prompt.
When it is suggested that a child should be admitted to the Ward?,
the Clinic Medical Officer, or Health Visitor, must point out to the parent,