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I Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
(a) Additional Ante-natal Sessions to be established.
(b) The Clinics held at Martin Street Centre to be discontinued.
II Forest Cate Hospital.
The erection of an up-to-date maternity unit.
III Whipps Cross Hospital.
The establishment of a complete gynaecological unit.
IV The Establishment of Post-Natal Services to include:-
(a) appointment of Full-time Assistant Medical Officer
(Maternity and Child Welfare) ;
(b) separate post-natal sessions at the Council's Maternity
and Child Welfare Clinics.
(c) facilities for the treatment of defects found on examination
at the post-natal clinics.
If proposal IV (a) is sanctioned, separate sessions for the
routine medical examination of the pre-school child can then
be established at the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics.
V. Appointment of a Part-time Consultant Obstetric Surgeon to
the Council's Staff to attend:—
(a) at Consultative Ante-natal and Post-natal Clinics as
required ;
(b) at the Forest Gate Hospital Maternity Wards;
(c) in the home in connection with cases of complicated
midwifery.
VI Extension of the Council's Home Help Scheme.
In addition to the above matters there would arise certain
administrative problems which could readily be solved in due
course.
F. GARLAND COLLINS,
Medical Officer of Health-
Municipal Health Offices,
Romford Road, Stratford, E.15.
July, 1936.
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