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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
Visitors
during the year visitors were received in the department from many parts ot the
world, facilities being given for visits to various clinics and premises of the Council
including maternity and child welfare centres, day nurseries, school treatment centres
and speech therapy clinics. A large number of talks with senior medical, nursing and
administrative members of the staff were also arranged. Programmes were provided
for 343 visitors from 57 overseas countries and colonies and many of these included a
visit to Woodberry Down Health Centre where a total of 876 visitors excluding
students were received. (See report of Divisional Medical Officer, Division 4, page 138).
Arrangements were also made for 465 visitors to occupation centres for the mentally
defective.
Students
The department was pleased to assist medical, nursing and social science students
by affording facilities for visits in groups and arranging talks on various aspects of the
work. Apart from hospital student nurses, of whom 3,736 were received in the department
during the year, students were received from the following training centres:
Royal College of Nursing
Battersea College of Technology
Queen Elizabeth College
Battersea College of Domestic Science
Bedford College
South-East Essex Technical Training College
University of London
Surrey County Council
King Edward's Hospital Fund
National Training College of Domestic Subjects.
As in previous years health visitor students from the Royal College of Nursing and
Battersea College of Technology received practical training with the nursing staff in
the divisions and arrangements were made for them to have insight into the work of
the various other departments of the Council.
Requests were received from 72 post-graduate students studying for the Diploma
in Child Health for facilities to visit premises relating to the maternity and child welfare
and school health services under the supervision of the medical staff, as required by the
regulations governing entry to the examination. During the year some 830 visits were
arranged for these students. In addition 60 visits were arranged for 50 post-graduate
students preparing for the Certificate in Public Health.
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