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The main point for consideration, however, is not
hospital facilities but the lack of such facilities.
I have visitors, averaging more than one per week,
imploring me to do whatever may be possible to
expedite admission to sanatoria and other hospitals and,
of course, the terrible tragedy is that even the insufficient
number of beds that have been provided are not
all in use owing to the difficulty in obtaining the
requisite number of staff, both trained and untrained.
Once again, as in previous years, I have to report
the Corporation has again allocated the sum of £500
which has been distributed to the hospitals in London
and in the neighbourhood of Barking for their services
in connection with out-patients 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
year we are now dealing with totalled 115,000. This
compares with 113,989 in the year 1944 and 126,500
in 1943.
(d) Chiropody Clinic.
There can be no doubt this service is meeting a very
real demand and it is highly appreciated by the public
generally.
So far as I know, the only troubles we have arise
from the fact that the demand is greater than we can
meet.
The difficulty is, of course, in obtaining suitable
premises and this difficulty is likely to be felt so long