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30 ladies accompanying delegates to the World rower Conference visited a
welfare centre and a day nursery.
2 Members of Parliament and 6 officers of the Ceylon Government visited a day
nursery.
4 German Press representatives visited a maternity and child welfare centre and
a day nursery.
20 American visitors belonging to the " European Flying Classroom " (head
masters and teachers of training colleges and persons of similar standing), under the
direction of Professor Carl Horn of the Michigan State College, visited a welfare
centre and a day nursery.
3 Paramount Chiefs from Sierra Leone inspected the ambulance service.
16 members of the Association of County Medical Officers of Health visited a
deaf school and also attended at County Hall where they listened to a talk and saw
a demonstration on audiometric work. A film on the problems of education of the
deaf was also shown.
30 members of the National Association of Enrolled Assistant Nurses, who were
attending a conference of that body, were received at the County Hall, where the
Council's nursing service was explained by the Chief Nursing Officer and others.
A programme of visits was planned for the delegates to the Annual Conference
of the National Association for Maternity and Child Welfare, which included an
inspection of the ambulance service and visits to occupation centres.
Foreign
travel
Mr. B. Benjamin, the department s statistician, was enabled by the Council and
the Rockefeller Foundation to spend nine weeks in the United States of America
and Canada studying methods of organising the collection and treatment of public
health statistics.
Re.signationa
There were three resignations on reaching the age for voluntary or compulsory
retirement: Dr. M. Hogarth, senior medical officer (maternity and child welfare),
on 30th June ; Miss R. Dreyer, chief nursing officer, on 3rd September ; and Dr.
V. Wiley, senior medical officer (medical examinations), on 30th September.
Dr. G. E. Breen, senior medical officer (epidemiology), who had been seconded from
the South East Metropolitan Regional Board returned to duty with that Board on
14th March.
Appoint
ments
Appointments of senior staff were : Dr. I. Taylor (seconded from the Ministry
of Health) as senior medical officer (epidemiology), Dr. W. Hartston as senior medical
officer (tuberculosis), Dr. D. F. Egan as senior medical officer (maternity and child
welfare), Dr. C. W. J. Ingham as senior medical officer (medical examinations) and
Miss J. M. Calder, chief nursing officer.
This is the last report which I shall have the privilege of presenting, as before the
next can be written I shall have retired under the age limit. I wish, therefore, to
take this opportunity of thanking the staff of the Department in the warmest possible
terms for the magnificent work which they have done, and to express my deep
appreciation of their loyal and devoted service to the Council and to the people of
London.
VITAL STATISTICS
Population
The Registrar-General estimates the total home population of the county in the
middle of 1950 to have been 3,389,620, compared with 3,389,850 in 1949. (The
provisional census figure at April, 1951, was 3,348,336.) The corresponding estimates
for metropolitan boroughs are shown in Table 2 on page 138 and the rates given in
this annual report are calculated upon these figures.