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Care of the Feet.
From the early days of the new Harrow Council, the principle was
accepted that the Council, while providing advisory and educational
services, would try to assist those bodies responsible for providing treatment
services to put these at the disposal of selected groups of the
population rather than the Council itself should provide such services.
In this way it was understood that a foot treatment service would be made
available by the Harrow Hospital for those in the district needing such
attention. The matter was re-opened after the war when the possibility
of the hospital's being able to make use of the First-Aid Post in the Car
Park was being discussed, and at one time hopes ran high. Later, the
hospital found itself unable to make arrangements on these lines. A
limited chiropody service is provided in some areas of the county for
children attending maintained schools, for nursing and expectant mothers
and for children under school age. The County Council authorised the
Area Committee to make similar provision in this district. To-day, then,
these sections of the population in this district can take advantage of this
service. While these perhaps are not the sections of the population who
suffer most from conditions of the feet needing this form of treatment,
there is room for much useful work to be done in dealing with them.
Apart from this aspect, it is hoped that the activities of the chiropodist
will result in more attention being given to this matter and that steadily
more will appreciate what scope there is for preventing the development
of disabling and painful conditions.
Tuberculosis Clinic.
Most of the area is served by the Chest Clinic at 199, Station Road,
Harrow, the part of the district to the north and east being served by the
Chest Clinic at the Edgware General Hospital.
Treatment of Venereal Diseases.
Sufferers can be treated at certain London hospitals and at the
Central Middlesex Hospital, Acton Lane, Willesden; Hillingdon Hospital.
Royal Lane, Hillingdon; and West Middlesex Hospital, Twickenham
Road, Isleworth.
The most convenient of the London hospitals at which treatment is
provided are St. Mary's Hospital, Cambridge Place, Paddington; and
University College Hospital, Gower Street.
PROVISION FOR SPECIAL CLASSES OF PERSON
The Deprived Child.
The duty of providing for the deprived child falls on the Children's
Committee of the County Council and the Children's Officer, Miss J.
Rowell, of 10, Great George Street, S.W.I (Tel. No.: Trafalgar 7799).
In this area the work is carried out by the Area Children's Officer, Miss
Susan Boag, at the County Council's Children's Care Office, 48, Station
Road, Harrow (Tel. No.: Harrow 2963).