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Upney Clinic. This is a former Civil Defence First Aid post
in which the accommodation provided is sub-standard when compared
with the general standard in the town. It is proposed that the building
should be adapted on lines similar to those adopted for the Porters
Avenue Clinic, with the addition of a wing for dental services. The
clinic, which is within the curtilage of the Barking Hospital, belongs
to the Regional Hospital Board with whom negotiations are in progress
for a long term lease to be granted to the Local Health Authority
so that the necessary adaptations and addition may be carried out as
an economic proposition.
New Foot Clinic. The Local Health Authority has approved
the erection of a temporary building in the precincts of the Central
Clinic for the purpose of housing the Chiropody Clinic at present
held in the East Street Clinic. It is envisaged that the East Street
Clinic will revert to a dental clinic so that the dental services in the
older part of the town may be extended.
Extension of Dental Workshop. The dental workshop at the
Central Clinic has been operating for a number of years and since
the "appointed day" has undertaken an increasing amount of work
for priority patients in other Health Areas in the County. Plans
have been approved by the Local Health Authority for the workshop
to be extended so that output may be facilitated and provision made
for a wider catchment area to be served in the future, i.e. enabling
more technicians to be employed.
Bifrons Dental Clinic. In order to release school accommodation,
negotiations are in progress for the transference of the dental
clinic held in Bifrons School to a former L.C.C. Rents Office nearby
in Bromhall Road.
It is estimated that over 90 per cent. of the babies born in the own
are still seen at infant welfare clinics, the proportion of expectant mothers
attending ante-natal clinics remains high and there has been a still further
percentage increase in the number of women attending for post natal
examination.
The following services remain available to all members of the public,
viz. Ear, Nose and Throat, Ophthalmic, Orthopædic, Skin and Chiropody.
The shortage of physiotherapists has made it difficult to maintain
an adequate staff at the orthopaedic clinic which has ever-increasing
demands made upon it.
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