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The ultra-violet light clinic is still held in the Manor
School. It is anticipated that when this clinic is transferred
to the new proposed out-patient department in
Upney Lane the attendance figures will increase.
A special clinic for mothers is held in the Humphrey
Ward, a building adjoining the Upney Maternity
Pavilion. The numbers here are steadily increasing
and although the attendances from the area in which
the clinic is situated were expected to be higher, it
does fulfil a need, in as much as difficult cases about
to enter the maternity hospital and cases after confinement
at the hospital are seen at this clinic by the
resident medical officer. Also, the clinic is used once
a month as a birth control centre.
Foot Clinic.—July saw the inauguration of a
Municipal Foot Clinic, and sessions, including evening
ones, are held at the Central and Woodward Centres.
This service is much appreciated by the public, and
meets a very real need.
(e) Nursing in the Home.—I have been very favourably
impressed when, in the course of my journeyings,
I have come across communities of peoples where
hospitalisation is carried to such an extent that virtually
there is no nursing in the homes. It appears that
unfortunately this is a very long way off in England,
and that we must in this way or in that provide
nursing in the homes of the people, and if we accept
the principle it can only be said that we ought to
provide more than we do at present.
At present the work is done in Barking by the
Plaistow Maternity Charity and District Nurses'
Home and the East Barking District Nursing Association,
both of whom now receive substantial grants
from the Corporation. The Plaistow Maternity
Hospital and District Nurses' Home, with their large
home, are able more or less to second nurses to Barking