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(c) Ear, Nose and Throat Service. 61 sessions
were held during the year by your Consultant Specialist,
Mr. F. Courtenay Mason. 28 of these were operative
sessions at the Barking Hospital and 33 were out-patient
sessions held at Central Clinic.
Pinal arrangements were completed for the
admission of patients to Barking Hospital for tonsil
operations. Members of the Civil Defence and Emergency
Medical Service's nursing and medical staff, were
allowed to give all co-operation in this work to members
of the Public Health Staff, and I would like here to
record my appreciation for their help without which the
Scheme could never have been put into action.
The first session arranged for 24th March, 1941,
had to be cancelled owing to enemy action, but on 6th
April, 1941, the first operative session was held at
Barking Hospital and thereafter the scheme proceeded
without incident until the end of the year. Children
were admitted the day before operation and discharged
two days after operation. In May, 1941, this scheme was
extended to cover all operative procedures of the ear,
nose and throat. Actually 196 school-children were
operated on at the Barking Hospital during 1941.

(d) Dental Inspection and Treatment. On January
11th the Dental Clinic held at Woodward was of necessity
transferred and it opened at Manor Clinic on 12th January, 1941.
where it worked in conjunction with the original Manor Clinic.
Here it remained until arrangements could be made to open a
Dental Clinic at Bifrons School. This was achieved on the
12th August, 1941., and thereafter clinics in three different
buildings in widely separated areas of Barking were being held
again. Dental Inspections at schools were carried out in the
usual manner.
The following table gives an idea as to the amount
of work carried out:-
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