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The following clinics for adults are held on behalf of the
Harrow and Wealdstone Hospital:—
Massage Clinic Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 5 p.m.
Sunlight Clinic Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 5 p.m.
School Clinics.
Minor Ailment Clinics are held once weekly at Roxeth Hill
Council School, Harrow, and twice weekly at the Baptist Church
Parlour, Wealdstone. Dental treatment is provided for Harrowon-the-Hill
and Wealdstone school children at "Tyneholme," and
for the Hendon Rural District children at the Whitchurch Institute.
Treatment of visual defects amongst school children is carried
out at a clinic in Wembley.
Tuberculosis Clinic.
A local Tuberculosis Dispensary is maintained at 25, Greenhill
Crescent, Harrow, on Thursday afternoons. This is a branch dispensary,
the main one which serves an area which includes Harrow,
Wembley, Willesden and Ruislip-Northwood, being situated at
Pound Lane, Willesden. The work carried out at the tuberculosis
dispensary is mainly consultative and advisory in character,
active treatment not being undertaken to any considerable extent.
Venereal Diseases.
There is no treatment provided locally for persons suffering
from venereal disease. Provision is made under the London and
Home Counties Scheme, the only centre in the county providing
this treatment being the Prince of Wales's Hospital, Tottenham.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.
There are three Nursing Associations in the district, one at
Pinner, one at Stanmore, and the Harrow, Wealdstone and Harrow
Weald Nursing Association. Each of the first two employs one
nurse-midwife. The other now covers most of the rest of the
Harrow Urban District. In the Harrow-on-the-Hill area years
ago there was a nurse at work, and from 1898 a regular report of
the Harrow District Nursing Fund was issued. The work was
carried out in association with the Harrow Hospital, being managed
by the Managers of the Hospital. From early 1933 this close
association with the Hospital ceased, a new body being formed as
the Harrow District Nursing Association, affiliated to the Queen's
Institute of District Nursing. In August, 1932, a similar Association
was formed in Wealdstone, and in January, 1933, the service was
extended to Harrow Weald, a Committee being formed which
worked in conjunction with the Wealdstone Committee. In
January, 1934, the service was completely remodelled by the