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(4) EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE.
Sixty-one sessions v/ere held during the year by
your Specialist Consultant, Mr. F. Courtenay Mason.
Twenty-eight of these were operative sessions at the
Barking Hospital and 33 v/ere out-patient sessions held at
Central Clinic.
Final arrangements were completed for the admission
of patients to Barking Hospital for tonsil operations.
Members of the Civil Defence and Emergency Medical
Service's nursing and medical staff were allowed to give
all co-operation in this work to members of the Public
Health staff, and I would like here to record my
appreciation for their help, without which the scheme
could never have been put into action.
The first session arranged for 24th March 1941, had
to be cancelled owing to enemy action, but on 6th April
1941, the first operative session was held at Barking
Hospital and thereafter the scheme proceeded without
incident until the end of the year. Children were
admitted the day before operation and discharged two days
after operation. In May 1941, this scheme was extended
to cover all operative procedures of the ear, nose and
throat. Actually 256 children v/ere operated on at the
Barking Hospital during 1941.
The total number of cases who received operative
treatment during the year was as follows:-
Toddlers 86; School children 277; Total 363.
In October 1941, arrangements were completed whereby
the facilities available at this Clinic could be afforded
to members of the adult population. Since the
inception of this scheme, and up to December 1941, two
patients have availed themselves of consultations with
the Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant.
(5) OPHTHALMIC SERVICES.
The services provided by you for the examination
and treatment of the eyes have been carried on entirely
at the Central Clinic during 1941, owing to the damage
done to the ophthalmic equipment at the Woodward premises
in the early part of the year. At first only two sessions
per week were held but it was found possible as time v/ent
by to increase this number to three sessions per week,
and a total of 104 sessions were held during the year
compared with 82 sessions in 1940.

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