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Barking 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The following table shows the amount of money which has been contributed to each hospital, and represents roughly the use to which they are put by the people of Barking:—
| £ | |
|---|---|
| City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs | 12 |
| East Ham Memorial Hospital | 38 |
| King George Hospital, Ilford | 55 |
| Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children, Shadwell | 8 |
| Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford | 35 |
| St. Mary's Hospital, Plaistow | 11 |
| Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street | 3 |
| Poplar Hospital | 20 |
| London Hospital | 68 |
| Total | £250 |
The County Hospital is at Romford. Further County hospital accommodation
is being provided.
The Brookfield Orthopædic Hospital, near Woodford, in which you have been
personally interested and which has received the greater number of your orthopædic
cases requiring hospital treatment, has, during the year, been taken over by the
Essex County Council. The County Council are, I think, making alternative
accommodation in the near future which will replace the old Brookfield Hospital.
The Brookfield Hospital has served a wonderful purpose, and though the time
may have come for it to be replaced, it does not in the least detract from its
honourable history.
(d) Clinics and Treatment Centres.—During the year the Central Clinic and
the Woodward Clinic, whilst pre-eminently fulfilling the purpose for which they
were erected, have been so overcrowded (and this relates especially to the Woodward
Clinic) that you have been seriously considering the erection of a further clinic,
following the general plan of those already in existence. If this clinic was erectcd
in the Northern portion of the Becontree Estate in Barking, overcrowding at the
Woodward Clinic would probably cease, and people living in this part of the
Estate would be very much better served than heretofore.