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(5) FOLLOWING UP.
This was made particularly difficult
during the early months of the year by heavy raids. Many
were the non-access visits and attempts to locate the
whereabouts of bombed-out families. Towards the close
of the year fortunately, living conditions became more
normal and much valuable work has been done by your
Health Visitors and School Nurses in this direction.
(6) ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT.
(a) Minor Ailments. On January 11th, 1941,
Woodward Clinic had to be closed owing to enemy action and
your Services there wore almost immediately transferred to
Porters Avenue Clinic which carried on full Minor Ailment
Sessions in its place from January 13th until February 3rd,
1941. On this latter date Greig Hall, situated within a
few yards of Woodward Clinic, was opened in order to take
over the Services originally carried on at Woodward Clinic.
It has remained open for this purpose ever since.
Meanwhile during the three weeks that
Porters Avenue Clinic was open as a Minor Ailment Clinic
it was found that there was an influx of minor ailment
cases from the Porters Avenue Area which had not attended
at the original Woodward Clinic, and as a trial Porters
Avenue Minor Ailment Clinic was kept open for one further
month. The attendances there increased to such an extent
that it was deemed wise to keep this clinic open for the
benefit of school-children attending the three nearby
schools.
The figures further on show how much this
service was needed.
It should be added that the First-Aid Post
from Woodward was transferred to Porters Avenue at the
same time as the Minor Ailment Clinic.
The First-Aid Post at Central Clinic was
transferred to Broadway First-Aid Post on 6.3.41.
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