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Ophthalmic Clinics
Sessions are held at the Honeypot Lane Clinic on Tuesday mornings,
Marlborough Hill clinic on Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings,
and at the Alexandra Avenue clinic on Thursday mornings. The prescription
is taken to an optician who provides the spectacles.
Arrangements are made to keep those children provided with
spectacles under observation.
The ophthalmic surgeons at the clinic are now on the staff of the
Regional Hospital Board.
The deflection of a squinting eye can sometimes be straightened by
exercises. Mrs. Barrett, an orthoptist, treats children in this way at the
Marlborough Hill clinic.
Child Guidance Centre
At the County Council's Child Guidance Centre at 2 St. John's
Road, Harrow, the full-time psychiatrist, Dr. Margaret Saul, is helped
by psychologists and psychiatric social workers.
Speech Clinic
A speech clinic is held at the Marlborough Hill clinic where two
whole-time speech therapists are engaged. Those attending are mainly
pupils of maintained schools who have been referred for treatment either
by the school medical officers or by the teachers. Sessions are now
being held at some of the peripheral clinics.
Dental Treatment
Dental treatment, apart from that provided under the National
Health Service Act, is available for school children, children under five
and expectant and nursing mothers.
The service is under the administration of the area dental officer,
Mr. A. G. Brown.
There are dental surgeries at six premises: 76 Marlborough Hill,
Elmwood Avenue clinic, Alexandra Avenue clinic, Roxeth clinic,
Honeypot Lane clinic and Whittlesea Road clinic.
Apart from the sessions when the dental officers are examining
children in the schools, treatment sessions are held every week-day,
rooming and afternoon.
The school children treated there are those found, at the routine
dental inspection of children at the schools, to need treatment. Only
those who attend by appointment can be seen, except those referred by
the head teachers of the schools for urgent or emergency treatment.
Children under five, expectant and nursing mothers are referred by
the medical officers at the clinics which they attend. Expectant mothers
are also referred by their own doctors.
An orthodontic surgeon works at the Marlborough Hill clinic.
Care of the Feet
A limited chiropody service is provided by the local health authority
for children attending maintained schools, for nursing and expectant