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School Clinics.—These are provided by the Middlesex County
Council.
(a) Minor Ailment Treatment Clinics are in operation at Highfield
Road Council School, Winchmore Hill, where sessions are
held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, and at Holly
Park Council School, Friern Barnet, on Monday mornings and
Friday afternoons.

(b) Ophthalmic Clinic.-—An ophthalmic clinic is held weekly,
on Wednesday mornings, at Garfield Road School, and school
children are seen by Mr. E. F. King, F. R.C.S., D.O.M.S.,
Ophthalmic Surgeon. One hundred and ninety-four children
attended the clinic and were seen by the Ophthalmic Surgeon during
1934. Spectacles were prescribed and provided for 128 of these.
The corresponding figures for 1933 were 195 and 147 respectively.
(c) Dental Clinic.-—For several years past, arrangements existed
between the Middlesex County and the Southgate Borough Councils
whereby the Dental Clinic for elementary school children, expectant
.and nursing mothers and children below the age of five years was
held at Broomfield House, Broomfield Park. As indicated elsewhere
in this report, these arrangements were terminated in June,
1934. The Clinic was accordingly transferred to the Winchmore
Council School, Highfield Road, where dental treatment of school
children only is now carried out by Miss A. M. Munro, L.D.S.,
one of the County Council's Assistant Dental Officers.
Children attending Bowes Road and Garfield Road Council
Schools continue to receive treatment at the clinic at Holly Park
Council School.
The Dental Officer inspects children in the various schools,
and those requiring treatment are referred to the dental clinic,
where treatment is provided at a charge of Is. 6d. (remitted in
necessitous cases).
One thousand five hundred and fifty-one children were dentally
inspected at the Schools during the year as against 2,181 in 1933,
while 1,032 attended at the clinics (1933—1,050), where they
received treatment for various dental defects.
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