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Priority Dental Services
This service is provided for expectant and nursing mothers and
children under five years and is available at the eight dental clinics in the
Borough. During the year 42 expectant or nursing mothers and 416
children under five years received treatment.
Marriage Guidance
The Marriage Guidance Council have a local office in the Borough.
This is at 88/89 College Road, Harrow. Telephone: 427 8964.
Family Planning
The Family Planning Association, acting on an agency basis for the
Council, continued to provide the family planning services in Harrow
under the Agency Scheme No. 5.
An additional evening clinic was commenced at Honeypot Lane Clinic
in the Spring to relieve the heavy pressure on Caryl Thomas Clinic. In the
Autumn another IUD clinic was commenced in the South of the Borough
at the Alexandra Avenue Clinic.
A Youth Advisory Clinic was started at Caryl Thomas Clinic to
provide counselling and advisory services for girls under the age of 20
years. It had been found that many of these girls attended the normal
clinic sessions and because of the additional time involved in counselling
and sorting out their problems it was decided that they should be referred
to their own special clinic. The clinic grew slowly and after running for six
months the session was given additional publicity through schools, youth
leaders, social workers, general practitioners and local firms.
The general principle to open family planning sessions in suitable
premises with general practitioner group practices was approved by the
Council. A family planning clinic was set up in a general practitioner
group practice and the services were restricted to patients who attended
from the group practice. The clinic is run in the usual way with the Family
Planning Association staff supporting the general practitioners, the
Council being financially responsible.
The Council agreed to enter into an agency agreement with the Brook
Advisory Centres which provide professional advice for unmarried young
people on sexual and emotional problems. The provision of free consultation
for Harrow residents and free contraceptive supplies in medical
and social need (Agency Scheme 5 of the Family Planning Association)
was extended to all those residents who attend the Brook Centres.