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sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, at
De Bohun Council School, Southgate, on Tuesday mornings, and
at Holly Park Council School, Friern Barnet, on Monday and
Wednesday mornings.
The total number of children attending Southgate Schools dealt
with at the Minor Ailments Clinics during 1937 was as follows:—
Not
New Atten- Treated. requiring
Cases. dances. Treatment.
Winchmore Hill 1,317 3,897 1,244 73
De Bohun 446 1,536 446
Holly Park 301 620 263 38
2,064 6,053 1,953 111
(6) Ophthalmic Cliv/ic.—An ophthalmic clinic is held twice
weekly, on Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons, 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 fortyeight
children attended the clinic and were seen by the Ophthalmic
Surgeon during 1937. Spectacles were prescribed and provided
for 148 of these. The corresponding figures for 1936 were 209
and 146 respectively.
(c) Dental Clinic.—Dental treatment of school children is
carried out by Mrs. A. M. Ferry, 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 Is. 6d. (remitted in necessitous
cases).
Two thousand and eigthy-three children were dentally inspected
at the schools during the year, as against 2,195 in 1936, while
1,894 attended at the clinics (1936, 1,519) where they received
treatment for various dental defects.
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