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The Infant Welfare Centres send specially selected cases to
see me on Friday mornings. 59 have been sent in the past year.
This provides in the simplest possible manner for one side of
the co-operation between the centres and the special departments
of medicine, which is of sufficient importance to be dealt with by a
Special Committee of Hospital Surgeons and Physicians and
Infant Welfare Medical Officers which sat at the Society of Medical
Officers of Health in London. At this Committee I recommended
the plan in force at East Ham, but one felt that perhaps the importance
of the Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Infant Welfare Centre
had been recognised more fully in East Ham than elsewhere.
May I, in conclusion, Sir, once more thank you for the cordial
co-operation invariably extended to me by the School Medical
Officers and draw attention to the invaluable work done by the
School Nurses and Health Visitors who attend my clinic and help
so materially with the treatment. These, together with the kindly
efficiency of the optician and the clerical staff, have made possible
the measure of success attained.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHARLES LEONARD GIMBLETT.