Suva Gets Practical Help From Bayly Clinic

?he J. P. Bayly Clinic which Tied in Suva, Fiji, in November doing such a fine job for the er-income families of the area t already accommodation is ed. Over 100 patients are a ted there each day. ’he clinic is the brain-child of George Hemming, who gave up /ate practice in Suva to devote time to it. And it was Mr. J.

Bayly, Fiji business man, who le the doctor’s dream a practical position by providing the fine iern building in which the clinic loused. . full-time nurse is employed the rest of the work entailed keeping records, admitting the lents, etc., is performed by a mteer group of Anglican nen. >nly members of families whose

total annual in come is £2OO or less are treated.

Each patient pays a nominal fee of 2/-. The waiting room is generally so crowded the observer naturally wonders what these people did for medical at tention before the clinic existed.

Suva is fortunate in having a Hem

ming-Bayly com

bination—the one to realise the need and be pre pared to devote his time to it; the other to provide the hard cash

without which the best dreams languish.

Photographs, show, top, the J.

P. Bayly clinic, which is situated in the busy market area of Suva; and, below, the men Suva has to thank for it—Mr. Bayly and Dr.

Hemming.