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(h) Post-War Re-development.
The Post-War Re-development Committee have
considered various schemes for housing and medical
services after the war and have drawn up programmes,
in order of priority, for the first, second and third
years.
Early in 1943, it had been agreed in principle
that a main health centre should be established at the
Barking Hospital with four subsidiary centres in
different parts of the town, and this scheme, together
with housing schemes and the extension of maternity
hospital accommodation, was included in the programme
for the first year.
(2) MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES.
(a) Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Supervision.
Although in 1943 many expectant mothers evacuated,
the number of attendances of ante-natal cases at
your clinics amounted to 11,955, an increase of over
1,700 on the figure for the previous year. The number
of post-natal attendances (85 5) showed an increase of
over 150 and gynaecological attendances (1,242) an
increase of nearly 500 over the previous year.
It is gratifying to note that the Upney Post-Natal
Clinic, with its special facilities, continued to be used
by a very large majority of the patients requiring
examination as post-natal or gynaecological cases,
although, as in previous years, facilities were available
at all the Clinics for such patients to be seen.