CENTRES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. (To TEE EDITOR OF TEE "
SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator for Saturday, June 18th, an article on Centres for Medical Treatment suggests that the Orthopaedic Clinics opened by the Pensions Committees should be used for civilians as well as disabled soldiers. It may interest your readers to know that this has been done at Farnworth, near Bolton. A Pensions Clinic was opened eighteen months ago, a small house in the centre of. the town being converted into a centre. It is available for any patients sent either by the Pensions Committee or by any local medical man. The Educa- tion Authority has promised to send eases of infantile paralysis or other children needing treatment. There are two whole-time fully qualified masseuses and one part-time masseuse. I com- plete X-ray installation, with apparatus for high-frequency electric treatment and appliances for massage, electricity, and S.R.E. The centre is managed by trustees appointed from the three local 'Urban District Councils, the Local Pensions Com- mittee, and the Co-operative Society. Any subscriber of £1 ls. is entitled to two months' treatment by means of a recommend.
The Guardians, the Co-operative Society, and employers of labour are amongst the subscribers. Private patients can be treated by paying for each visit on the receipt of a doctor's note.
The work is increasingly appreciated by the public, and the fact that a most comfortable waiting-room is provided is specially approved by the pensioners, who have had in many cases to wait for long weary hours at the overcrowded centres attached to hospitals. In order to make the centre availab:e for all classes it is open morning, afternoon, and evening.—
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