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Much closer links with Dr. Fisch, and with the Peripatetic Teachers of
the Deaf employed by the Education Department, have resulted in a
much improved service for Harrow school children.
3. Feet
The chiropody service is used increasingly for dealing with foot
defects and infections. A close link has been established with the Chief
Chiropodist and the Clinic Doctors and Nurses and an all out attack
on verrucae in school children was launched in 1973 with encouraging
results.
4. Tuberculosis
In October a case of pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed in a
member of the ancillary staff in a grammar school. Although the risk of
infection was judged to be slight, radiography examination was arranged
for all purpils and staff. There was an extremely high response and no
further cases of infection were found.
5. Overweight School Children
In view of the problems of obesity in young children, highlighted by
the Milk Certificate survey; a Pilot Clinic has been started at Northolt
Road Clinic on Friday mornings. Realistic diet sheets have been drawn
up by the medical staff in co-operation with the Chief Dietrician for
Northwick Park Hospital who has shown a great interest in the project.
Care has been taken to balance the needs and likes of children against the
cost of a high protein/vegetable and fruit diet.
6. Student Health Services
Harrow College of Technology and Art and the Hatch End College
of Further Education provide tertiary education for full-time and parttime
students. Many of these students are from overseas with all the
attendant problems of settling down to live and study in a foreign culture,
and many more come from areas outside the Borough living away from
home for the first time.
A start was made in setting up a comprehensive student health
service by the appointment of Mrs. Cooper a qualified and experienced
student counsellor to the Harrow College. At the same time a teacher at
the Hatch End College was seconded to a year's full time course in
counselling at Keele University. Throughout the year additional counselling
sessions were covered at both colleges by Dr. Fidler. In December,
Dr. Arthur, a general practitioner, was appointed a part-time student
health doctor.
The nucleus of a comprehensive service to the Borough has thus
been laid down, but so far senior colleges have not been covered, nor to
any realistic extent has the whole field of the adult student.