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This Special Committee reported that in no case was the
accommodation satisfactory and that it could not be made so
without incurring considerable cost to the Council. The Committee
was satisfied that it was highly desirable for clinic
sessions to be conducted on more satisfactory lines than they
then were, and it was convinced that this could only appropriately
be done were adequate facilities and proper equipment
provided. "This," the Committee said, "can only be secured by
the Council providing and equipping their own premises."
Alongside this opinion regarding the Wembley services may
be put an observation from the Annual Report of the Chief
Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health for the year 1935—
"Excellent provision is now generally made for individual
observation and advice to mothers on the care and bringing up
of infants and young children. Good premises greatly help in
the work of a centre, and it is satisfactory that the hired rooms,
often dingy and ill.ventilated, so common a few years ago, are
now frequently being replaced by well.planned airy and pleasant
buildings."
In due course, then, it became the policy of the Council to
develop their clinic services with the erection of ad hoc clinic
buildings on modern lines.
The seven Council clinic buildings to which reference has
already been made, will permit the substitution of all unsatisfactory
make.shift premises.
One Tree Hill Clinic Dental Surgery.
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