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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
morning 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 was provided by the local health
authority for children attending maintained schools, for nursing and
expectant mothers, and for children under school age. Appointments are
made at sessions held at the various permanent clinic buildings in the
district.
Towards the end of the year, arrangements were started by which
those in certain priority groups who needed treatment for conditions of
their feet could receive this. These were the expectant and nursing mothers,
children under five, the physically handicapped and the elderly.
Chest Clinic
The Chest Clinic serving most of the district is that at 199 Station
Road, Harrow (Tel. No. Harrow 1075). The physician-in-charge is Dr.
Grenville-Mathers. Serving part of the district on the eastern side is the
Chest Clinic at the Edgware General Hospital (Tel. No. Edgware 4467).
The physician-in-charge is Dr. Trenchard.
Provision for Special Classes of Person
The Deprived Child
The County Council as the local authority under the Children's Act
has a duty to take into care children under the age of seventeen who are
without parents or have been lost, or abandoned by, or are living away
from their parents or when their parents are unable to take care of them,
and the intervention of the authority is necessary in the interests of the
welfare of the child. These children are placed in residential homes or are