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General and Maternity.
The district is well served by hospitals and the closest
liaison and fullest co-operation is maintained with the
hospitals serving the area.
Those engaged in both services realise that something
more than friendly neutrality between two sets of organisations
working in the same field should be achieved and both
by frequent personal contact and a belief that the best interest
of the public is our obligation. The hospital contribution to
public health even in our own particular field of preventive
medicine is too rarely appreciated. One has only to recall
the multiplicity of arrangements made with general and special
hospitals by local authorities in the detection and treatment
of such conditions as deformities, eye diseases, ear infections,
the availability of children's specialists and in-patient accommodation
for investigation of special conditions beyond the
scope of the clinics, to realise that the local authority health
service has had at its elbow a comprehensive ancilliary
service which has supported and enhanced the work of the
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