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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA
(1) GENERAL HEALTH SERVICES.
(a) Ambulance Facilities.
This service continues to "be a part of the Civil
Defence Organisation and our reciprocal arrangements with
adjoining areas have been maintained.
(b) Hospital Facilities.
As in 1940, the Barking Hospital continues to be
within the framework of the Emergency Medical Service.
Voluntary hospitals catering for the residents of
the Borough were again given financial assistance, and the
sum of £300 was allocated by you for distribution to these
hospitals.
(c) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
The demand for our normal clinic services has not
lessened and the attendances at the Out-Patient departments
were very high during the year 1941.
The Central Clinic was used as a First Aid Post
until 6th March, 194l. when it was transferred to the new
Broadway First Aid Post.
As mentioned in my previous year's Report, we
discontinued the use of tho Woodward Clinic in January 1941,
because of serious damage by enemy action, and we have
continued to use the Greig Hall adjoining as a Clinic, and
Out-Patient department.
(d) Nursing in tho Home.
The Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses
Home and the East Barking District Nursing Association. continue
to be responsible for nursing in the home and the services
provided are satisfactory. The amount of nursing in the home
has increased since the outbreak of war.
Both these organisations receive substantial financial
aid from the Barking Corporation.
(2) MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.
(a) Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Supervision..
In spite of the evacuation of many expectant mothers
the number of attendances of ante-natal cases at your clinics
amounted to 8,299, an increase of over 900 on the figure for
the previous year.
A weekly clinic session for post-natal and
gynaecological cases only was commenced at the Humphrey Clinic
on the 1st April, 1941, and considerable effort has been made
to persuade our mothers to use this facility. As a result it
can be recorded that the number of post-natal attendances (508)
and of gynaecological attendances (359) each showed an increase
of about 100 over the previous year.
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