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(8) MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT.
Minor Ailment Clinic.—The arrangements for the treatment of
minor ailments have remained substantially the same as for last
year, except that the St. Alban's Clinic was opened on November
5th, 1930. This is a temporary clinic held in the St. Alban's Church
Hall.
We are very happy in being able to make some arrangements
for the people in this area, but the circumstances under which the
clinic is held are rather primitive and, so soon as practicable, it is
hoped that the clinic will be housed in a suitable building.
Every attempt is made to conduct this work without any
encroachment on private practice, and I think the evidence of
our work here goes to show that the work we are carrying out
promotes the financial and professional interests of private medical
practitioners.
This clinic in Barking meets a very real need. The number of
attendances have gone up again this year very considerably, and
altogether you are to be congratulated on this essential work you
are so carefully carrying out.
I have discussed ways in which even this clinic could
be improved upon by continuous medical supervision, and in some
measure this has been achieved during the year on which I am
reporting, but there still remains for us to arrange for continuous
nursing supervision.
The present system of staffing these clinics altogether from
the Plaistow Charity means that the nursing staff is continually