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"While the provision of a new hospital might be the ideal
solution, the Board's representatives saw no hope of persuading
the Minister to agree to so large a scheme, and further, when
balancing the needs of Ilford, Barking and Dagenham against other
parts of the Region, it could not be said that the provision of
additional facilities there would be the Board's top priority with
regard to any special capital allocation which the Minister might
be prepared to make within the next year or so.
"It was considered that the addition of a much smaller number
of beds than suggested by the deputation would go some way
towards meeting the difficulty, and that a more practical approach
to the problem in present circumstances would be to see what could
be done to improve and extend the resources already available.
Two main approaches to the problem might be the development of
Barking Hospital, starting with the provision of consultstive services
and some beds for general cases and the expansion of ancillary
services and an increase in the number of beds at the King George
Hospital.
"The deputation were promised that the Board would continue
to give earnest consideration to the problem of the lack of hospital
accommodation in the Ilford, Barking and Dagenh. areas, and
that the Board would do all that was possible within available
means to achieve some improvement in the present difficult situation
as quickly as possible".
THAMES VIEW HOUSING ESTATE
Clinic Premises
The erection of a health services clinic on this Esta vas deferred
by the Minister of Health because of the restricticted on capital
expenditure.
General Practitioner Services
During the year the Council agreed to erect a Uni-Seco prefabricated
structure for the use of family doctors serveg the Estate
but at the end of the year work had not commenced upon this building.
MORTUARY FACILITIES
During the year you agreed to the request of the Coroner for
the Metropolitan District of Essex for permission to said when need
be, the bodies of persons dying in Barking to the newly erected mortuary
at East Ham.
Ilford mortuary still continues to receive the bu of the bodies
from Barking.
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