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Ophthalmic Clinics.
Sessions are held at the Honeypot Lane clinic on Tuesday mornings,
Marlborough Hill clinic on Thursday 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 clinics are now on the staff of the
Regional Hospital Board.
The deflection of a squinting eye can sometimes be straightened by
exercises. An orthoptist treats children in this way at the Marlborough
Hill clinic.
Child Guidance Centre.
At the County Council's Child Guidance Centre at 82 Gayton 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 morning and
afternoon.
The school children treated there are those found, at the routine dental
ispection of children at the schools, to need treatment. Only those who
attend by appointment can be seen, except those referred b> the head
teachers of the schools for urgent or emergency treatment.