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(c) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
Your Clinics and Out-Patient Departments are
always in great demand and the attendances in the
year we are now dealing with totalled 126,500. This
compares with 118,000 in the year 1942 and 90,000
in 1939.
Public appreciation of these Examination and
Treatment Centres is of the highest, caused largely,
I think, by the comprehensive nature of your Schemes ;
and the standard of achievement in their application.
An additional Infant Welfare Clinic was established
at the Upney First Aid Post premises in July,
1943, two sessions now being held there weekly.
Since April, 1943, an evening Clinic has been held
weekly at the Upney Maternity Hospital to cater for
the ante-natal supervision of war workers.
(d) Foot Clinic.
This work has again increased and we have been
fortunate (particularly in war-time) in obtaining
additional qualified staff for this important Health
Service.

During the year 1943, the individual patients
totalled 1895, and it is a matter of special comment