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school age in England and Wales generally. This implies that
children of school age are not receiving such medical attention as
they might. Many school children in Ilford still have to travel to
hospitals in London to receive the expert attention which they
require, and I hope that the King George Hospital will find means
of so adapting their out-patients system that at least school
children who require out-patient hospital treatment, sometimes
for continued periods, shall be able to receive it, in the place in
which they are resident.
In my Report for 1925, I drew attention to the need of subsidiary
clinics, to serve school medical and maternity and child
welfare services. I am glad to say that the plans for the provision
of such a clinic in the Becontree and Goodmayes area have now
been passed. This clinic will prove invaluable for the children of
the area in which it is to be built, and when it is remembered that
at the last Census of school children, 46% of the total child population
was to be found in this area, the need for the clinic is apparent.
I wish again to thank the members of the Council for their
support, and I have the honour to be
Your obedient servant,
A. H. G. BURTON,
Medical Officer of Health.