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envisaged in the White Paper, when some alteration
in the distribution of vehicles must be expected.
(b) Hospital Facilities.
In my Report for the year 1937, I spoke of the
then difficulties in the interchange of medical opinion
between the large London Hospitals and the local
Authority. Those difficulties exist today. Optimistically,
we can believe they are in part due to the war,
but I am quite sure that to a large extent they are due
to the infortunate lines on which this work has developed
in the large London hospitals.
In particular, hospital staffs waste a lot of time
writing letters which express opinions of medical
importance without naming the medical practitioner
who is responsible for the opinion, and, of course,
such nameless opinions are all but valueless.
There is no general hospital in the Barking area
except that of the Barking Emergency Hospital
which is operating the Emergency Medical Service
Scheme, and which, of course, deals only with certain
types of cases for which H.M. Government is financially
responsible.
As in previous years, however, the Corporation
has again allocated the sum of £300 which has been
distributed to the hospitals in London and in the
neighbourhood of Barking for their services in connection
with out-patient and other attendances of
children from the Barking area.
(c) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
Your Clinics and Out-patient Departments are
always in great demand and the attendances in the