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* Excluding central administration.
VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
individual visitors to the department during 1952 totalled 259 from 53 countries,
including 71 visitors from Great Britain. The foreign countries from which visitors
were received, with the number from each were Aden 2, Argentina 1, Austria 1,
Australia 18, Belgian Congo 2, Bombay 2, Brazil 4, British Honduras 1, Burma 1,
Chile 1, Cyprus 1, Ceylon 2, Denmark 2, Egypt 1, Ethiopia 1, Finland 3, Formosa 1,
France 3, Germany 2, Gold Coast 5, Greece 3, Holland 1, India 23, Indonesia 1, Israel 2,
Italy 1, Japan 2, Korea 1, Malta 1, Malaya 2, Mexico 1, Nigeria 2, New Zealand 3,
Norway 9, Pakistan 8, Palestine 1, Persia 2, Portugal 1, Salvador 1, Sierra Leone 1,
South Africa 6, Sweden 9, Southern Rhodesia 2, Syria 4, Sudan 2, Switzerland 2,
Thailand 4, Trinidad 2, Uruguay 1, U.S.A. 31, U.S.S.R. 2, Viet Nam 1, West Africa 1,
Yugoslavia 1.
These visitors were given, according to their individual needs, programmes covering
visits to maternity and child welfare centres, school treatment centres, day nurseries,
occupation centres, etc., and in practically every case talks by senior medical, nursing or
administrative staff.
In addition to these individual visitors, 549 visitors, including 226 from Great
Britain, came in organised parties, sometimes for talks and sometimes for visits as
set out above. These visitors were :—
146 American university students in six parties.
60 postgraduate students from Society of Medical Officers of Health.
27 German social science students.
70 delegates to the National Council of Nurses.
17 Surrey County Council health visitor students.
5 from the International Labour Office of the United Nations.
4 Indian public health doctors.
18 German local government officials.
15 students from various countries.
4 medical officers from the Middlesex County Council.
25 Norwegian Government employees.
9 Soroptimists.