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

(b) Ophthalmic Clinic.—An ophthalmic clinic is held weekly
on Wednesday mornings, at Garfield Road School, school children
being seen by Mr. E. F. King, F.R.C.S., D.O.M.S., Ophthalmic
Surgeon. Two hundred and twenty children attended the clinic
and were seen by the Ophthalmic Surgeon during 1935. Spectacles
were prescribed and provided for 128 of these. The corresponding
figures for 1934 were 194 and 128 respectively.
(c) Dental Clinic.—Dental treatment of school children is
carried out by Miss A. M. Munro, L.D.S., one of the County
Council's Assistant Dental Officers at the Winchmore Council
School, Highfield Road.
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 1s. 6d. (remitted in
necessitous cases).
One thousand two hundred and twenty-seven children were
dentally inspected at the Schools during the year, as against 1,551
in 1934, while 998 attended at the clinics (1934, 1,032) where they
received treatment for various dental defects.
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