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D iring the war, when we were an Emergency Hospital of first reception it was
possible to give it a fair amount of this sort of work, and if people want to dig
out the figures they will have to look under the heading of gynaecology, which is the
old word of a byegone language by which is designated even to this day to the art
of dealing with those diseases which are peculiar to women.
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the doctor if they think he is going to tell them there is something wrong with them,
so for one reason or another, if I may use a very strong word, women funk being
examined after a baby is born.
We have been plugging away at the need for post-natal examinations in Barking
for many years, and having regard to the fact that I was very dispirited some years
ago, I do congratulate not only the women of Barking but my staff on the success
we have achieved, although the success isn't up to what I can still hope it might be.

Gynaecology.
Mary was in seeing the doctor one day and in the ordinary course of chit-chat
conversation she mentioned that she was sure a middle-aged friend of hers, who
lived 1 wo doors away, was not, in all respects, so well as she might be from a woman's
standpoint, and that in her opinion it was a pity she could not come to see the
doctor as Mary could.
A ary was surprised when the doctor told her that a Special Clinic is held
where women may obtain advice on any matter associated with conditions relating
only to women.
As a matter of fact John mentioned the same matter to me a little time afterwards,
and I explained to him that the same people who are specialists in midwifery
are almost always specialists in the diseases of women, and that our services, so
far as women are concerned, are not limited to childbirth.
POST-NATAL CLINIC.
Year.
No. of
Births.
No. of cases
attending.
1946
1,634
835
1947
1,881
963
1948
1,490
1,043
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