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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
The number of visitors received in the department during the year was less than in
the previous year although the number of foreign countries and British Commonwealth
countries from which they came remained unaltered at 57. 210 visitors were received
through the central office, the majority of them medical officers wishing to study the
Council's health services, and a number of visitors were received at the nine divisional
health offices. Programmes were arranged lasting from a single day to four weeks.
During the year 214 British and 146 foreign visitors, and 1,121 British and 41 foreign
students totalling 1,522 visitors were received at Woodberry Down Health Centre.
In addition 650 foreign and British visitors were received at occupation centres
for the mentally defective and 125 at the headquarters of the London ambulance service.
The laboratories of the scientific branch had many visitors from this country and abroad,
among them parties of senior boys from grammar schools.
Facilities were afforded medical, nursing and social science students for close study
of the services by the arrangement of talks, single visits or short periods of attachment,
as seemed most suitable. Provision was made for 64 post-graduate students studying
for the Diploma in Child Health who require to make a total of 20 visits to maternity
and child welfare and school health service premises. By arrangement with the Royal
Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 29 students studying for the Diploma in Public
Health were conducted on a number of visits to school health service clinics and special
schools. Special talks on the health services were given for students from teacher training
colleges. Students were received from the following training centres :
Health Visitor Students
Battersea College of Technology
Royal College of Nursing
South East Essex Technical College
Surrey County Council
Other Students (medical, nursing and social
studies)
Battersea Training College of Domestic Science
Bedford College
Institute of Chest Diseases
King Edward Hospital Fund for London
London School of Economics and Political
Science
London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
Ministry of Labour and National Service
Royal College of Nursing
University House
University of London
During the year 4,410 hospital student nurses were received in the department for
talks and practical experience.
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