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(8) MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT.
Minor Ailment Clinic.—Minor ailments are treated daily at
the Clinic at East Street. Three nurses attend from the Plaistow
Maternity Charity, and the Clinic is opened at 8.30 a.m. On the days
when there are gas sessions at the Dental Clinic, one of these three
nurses assists the dental nurse.
This Minor Ailment Clinic meets a very real need. Last year
it will be noted that the attendance nearly doubled that of the
previous year. This year we have roughly maintained the happy
position of which I was able to advise you for 1928, but I feel that
there is an even greater future for this type of work.
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I want to make it quite clear that we run this Clinic without
encroaching on the realms of private practice. The work carried
out is the treatment of sores and scabs, bad eyes and running ears—
the sort of work which wants the daily attention of a nurse rather
than of a doctor, although, of course, all the nursing work
must be carried out under the direct supervision of a doctor, who is
responsible for the treatment undertaken in each individual case.