Abortions have been cut to three a week at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow This is just one aspect of the savage cuts being launched by the Tory-controlled Harrow Council in line with Government policy on public spending. But activists fighting the cuts, including Harrow NAC, have pointed out that the pressure on the ever-growing list for gynaecol ogical operations the 'official' reason for the reduction in the number of abortions available - is largely the result of the fact that one of the consultants spends so much of his time doing private practice.
Despite Harrow's reputation as a very middle-class, suburban area, the cuts aren't being taken lying down. Over 100 Harrow social workers signed a petition against the cuts and arranged a picket of the the Social Services Committee which was joined by health visitors, workers from Northwick Park Hospital, and supporters of the National Abortion Campaign.
The tactics of the Conservative majority on the Council are obvious. As they went into the meeting they told the social workers to ask their teacher colleagues to take an extra four children a class — account for the total cuts! However, a Labour Councillor has estimated that if Harrow stopped sending children to direct grant schools, this too would cover the cuts.
The social workers leaders are tactics will fail. They recognise the importance of contacting local teachers and workers in the local hospital, as well as other council and public sector workers, to establish an adby the cuts.
Harrow Housing Action Campaign will be picketing the Labour Party this would to a house that has lain empty since minister Clement Attlee, as a symbol of their problems. There are an estimated 700 empty houses in Harrow, and at the same time Harrow has the lowest number of council houses in any London borough - a mere 7,000.
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ton line, which runs through Harrow. Demonstrator assaulting two policemen outside the Kingston Halls