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Hospital
student
nurses
Hospital student nurses were again received into Council establishments as part of
their training under the revised syllabus of the General Nursing Council, their number
(3,736) being somewhat larger than in the previous year (3,627).
Staff
Dr. G. D. Pirrie, principal medical officer in charge of school health, returned to the
service as did Miss B. Thom, divisional nursing officer for Division 8, after secondment
to the World Health Organisation and Miss E. Beattie, divisional nursing officer for
Division 2, returned following study leave. Miss C. Walsh, divisional nursing officer
of Division 3, was seconded to the World Health Organisation.
Early in the year Mr. R. E. Haymes was appointed divisional administrative officer
of Division 9.
In October 1956 Dr. Violet I. Russell, M.D., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.O.G.,
F.R.S.H., the divisional medical officer for Division 1 since December 1949, retired.
Dr. Russell became assistant divisional medical officer of Division 1 in 1948 after many
years' service with the Royal Borough of Kensington. Her long experience and personal
qualities enabled her to make an outstanding contribution to the development of the
Council's health services, and particularly the maternity and child welfare services.
Dr. Russell was succeeded by Dr. Bertha E. A. Sharpe, previously divisional medical
officer of Division 3. The deputy divisional medical officer of Division 1, Dr. R. H.
Simpson, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., retired earlier in the year. By his retirement the
Council lost the services of an able and experienced officer whose long service had been
marked by his keen interest in the health of school children.
I regret to record the death of Dr. L. G. Bach, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., an
assistant principal medical officer on the central medical administrative staff engaged
upon duties connected with the maternity and child welfare services whose work was of
great value to the department.
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