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Training of Pupil Midwives
Eight pupil raidwives completed their training during the year,
two remained in training at the end of December. Each pupil has
delivered at least six mothers in their own homes and in addition
have attended cases in the St. Mary Abbot's General Practitioner Unit
and mothers and babies discharged from hospital ^8 hours after
delivery.
The pupils have learned about the care and services available
in the community, by informal teaching, and a varied programme of
visits to other departments of the Council and to outside bodies.
They have attended health centres for visits of observation to
cytology clinics, family planning clinics and psychoprophylaxis
classes and have been encouraged to take part in parent craft teaching.
As a result it is hoped the pupils have been given a wider
outlook. Experience gained from this adaptation of their training
programme, and also from two experimental schemes undertaken outside
London, is helping towards the planning of a new one-year training
for midwives, whose experimental syllabus has just been approved by
the Central Midwives Board.
Hidwives Act. 1951
The Council are the local supervising authority for the purposes
of the Midwives Act, 1951> and have a duty to inspect and supervise all
midwives practising in the area.

health visiting
The duties of the health visitor have widened over the years
from concentration upon the mother and her young child to the whole
family and its place in society. This includes the adolescent, the
handicapped and the elderly and a wide range of health education
activities, both in her day to day work, in clinics and daily visits
to homes, and in informal situations in mothers' clubs, mothercraft
classes, schools, youth groups, teacher training courses, old people's
clubs and to many varying voluntary organisations.