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Nursing officers acted as lecturers at courses which included
the following:-
(a) Health Visitors Association - Course for Parents of
Mentally Handicapped Children.
(b) Marlborough Teachers Centre - "The Work of the Health
Visitor in the School and Community.M
(c) Bedford College Post-Graduate Studies Students Seminar.
(d) St. Marys Hospital School of Midwifery - "Domiciliary
Midwifery".
(e) G.L.C. Ambulance personnel - "Emergency Midwifery".
The Principal Nursing Officer accepted an invitation to present
a Paper to the Royal Society of Health Congress at Eastbourne in
April on "The Working Mother; the Effects Upon the Home and Family",
which received considerable press and television publicity.
Students and Visitors
Once again we were pleased to welcome many overseas visitors
including:-
Two Professors from the U.S.A. - one a Research Professor on
a World Health Organisation Scholarship.
The wife of the Prime Minister of Sweden (Mrs. L. Palme)
A Public Health Nursing Officer from Denmark studying on a
Council of Europe Fellowship.
Visits of observation to day nurseries and health centres were
made by the following groups:-
138 student nurses from St. Stephen's and St. Charles's Hospitals
20 student nurses from St. Mary Abbots Hospital
20 students from the North Western Polytechnic taking the course
in residential child care.
40 student teachers from the Froebel Institute.
11 student dieticians from the Queen Elizabeth College.
9 pupil midwives.
60 nursery students.
27 pupils from local schools.
4 social work students from Croydon Technical College.
1 child care student.
4 general practitioners.
4 student teachers from the Maria Assumpta College.
3 student teachers from Southlands College, Wimbledon.
Arrangements were made for 6 pupils from Ladbroke Senior Girls
School to work voluntarily for one half-day a week during the school
term at 3 separate day nurseries.