The North End Clinic, a Jewish institution of this city, established a record for the period of its existence last month, when 6,882 patients were treated. The nearest approach to this number of visits in the six and a half years since the clinic was established was in May, 1928, when 6,682 visits were recorded.
The report of the activities of the Clinic during the first five months of this year which has just been issued, shows that not only have the number of visits increased, but the per visit income has decreased, indicating the manner in which unemployment and the general economic depression have made the clinic one of the indispensable institutions in the city.
Though the number of visits has increased by 22 per cent during the first five months in 1930 over the corresponding period in 1929, the personnel was enlarged by only 7 per cent, and the carrying out of the work in the clinic was made possible by the staff’s devotion, many of the workers remaining on their jobs for hours past their time of duty, and some returning to complete their work on Sundays. Mrs. Eleanor J. Ford is director of the clinic.
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