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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
This section deals with those services which come under the
control of the Barking Health Area Sub-Committee of the Health
Committee of the Essex County Council.
CLINIC PREMISES
In connection with the future Capital Building Programme the
following projects have been included:-
Woodward Clinic
During 1963, 18 years after the end of the Second World War,
the War Damage Claim for Woodward Clinic, was agreed, and arrangements
put in hand for the demolition of this clinic and its rebuilding
on the same site.
Thanks to the kindness of the Education Department, the
majority of our services were transferred to Dawson Infants' School,
while the Dental Service for this area was accommodated in the
second Dental Surgery at Porters Avenue Clinic.
It is anticipated that the whole operation will take about 12
months, and here I would like to thank the Headmistress and staff
of Dawson School for their kindness in making us welcome, and
their forbearance in putting up with a lot of noise and disturbance
of their routine life.
Upney Clinic
With the demolition of Upney Clinic (a one time First Aid Post)
as a first step in the rebuilding of Barking Hospital, our clinic
services were transferred on 8th November to a pre-constructed
building situated near the Barking Hospital Administrative Block
and Nurses Home. This building, though nicely designed, is much
too small for the "traffic" it is called on to cope with. The number of
women attending an ante-natal session may be as many as 100, and
the seating accommodation, so essential and advisable for the
expectant mother, is completely inadequate.
Proposed Blake Avenue Day Nursery
(to replace Gale St. Nursery)
Our Borough Architect was commissioned to draw up the plans
for the Blake Avenue Day Nursery (50 places) in conjunction with
a small housing development, and the thought and planning which is
going into the construction of this nursery should make it a moadel
of its kind.
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