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Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond £
Street 5
Poplar Hospital 29
London Hospital 76
Total £300
(d) Clinics and Treatment Centres.—During 1938
the total attendances at Infant Welfare, Ante-Natal
and Minor Ailments Clinics have increased—see tables
on pages 41 to 44.
Once again there has been an increase in the total
attendances at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres
and the service itself has been increased to serve the
needs of the population of the area, notably in the
extension of the food preparations obtainable at the
various centres.
During the year sessions for minor ailments, infant
welfare and ante-natal work have been a permanent
feature of the Porters Avenue Clinic, which has now
become one of the main centres for this work. The
minor ailments section was opened primarily to relieve
the extreme congestion, which had been reported to
you in previous years, at the Woodward Clinic, but the
result has not been quite what was anticipated—
instead it has made available to a section of the community
the services which previously could be had but
at considerable inconvenience to those desiring them.
The Porters Avenue Clinic has, therefore, done
little to relieve the congestion at the Woodward
Clinic, but has become a full live centre of its own,
catering for the Northern Section of the Becontree
Estate in Barking. It is not anticipated that the work
of this clinic will decrease and the replacing of the
present temporary premises by a permanent building
must be considered and entertained.