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In the absence of local hospital facilities, this clinic continues
to supply among school children an undoubted need within the
district.
Three nurses on the staff of the Plaistow Maternity Charity
attend daily from 8.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
Last year reference was made to the fact that the work of these
various clinics was carried on in such a way as to encroach as little
as possible upon the work of private practitioners. This is a policy
which will be maintained, and I myself have no hesitation in assuring
you that, whilst from time to time no doubt cases will receive
attention at your clinics who might perhaps have been referred to
private doctors, on the other hand your medical service is responsible
for advising parents to consult medical practitioners under
circumstances where otherwise they would not call in expert help,
and that, if a balance were struck, it would be found certain that
no injustice accrued whatsoever.
The faulty state of the premises and the interference of the
due efficiency of the work to some extent in consequence was dealt
with in my predecessor s Report for 1925.