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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
Visitors for whom talks with senior officers and visits to the Council's establishments
were arranged through the central office numbered 333, and in addition a number
of visitors were received at the divisional health offices. Programmes covered varying
periods from one day to four weeks. Of these visitors 175 came from abroad:
Argentina 2
Australia 10
Austria 1
Belgium 1
Burma 2
Canada 3
Ceylon 7
Chile 2
Denmark 5
Eire 2
Egypt 1
Finland 4
France 1
Germany 7
Ghana 5
Goa 1
Greece 3
Holland 5
Hong Kong 2
India 7
Indonesia 4
Iraq 2
Iran 4
Israel 3
Italy 1
Japan 7
Kenya 3
Morocco 1
New Zealand 2
Norway 1
Pakistan 2
Poland 5
Portugal 2
Qatar 1
Rhodesia & Nyasaland.. 3
Singapore 1
South Africa 7
Sudan 2
Sweden 8
Switzerland 8
Syria 1
Thailand 4
Turkey 5
U.S.A. 15
U.S.S.R. 1
Vietnam 2
Yugoslavia 9
They included 2 members of governments, 82 doctors, 25 nurses, 3 students, 23
social workers, 27 central and local government administrative officers and 13 teachers.
A number of these visitors included in their programme a visit to Woodberry
Down Health Centre, where 1,441 visitors were received during the year; to the London
ambulance service, 174 visitors; to occupation centres for the mentally defective,
621 visitors including 436 students, and the laboratories of the scientific branch.
In addition to the individual visitors mentioned above, several groups were received
including 31 medical officers of the World Health Organisation travelling seminar,
35 German social workers, 20 teachers from Chile and 13 local government officers
from Israel.
Facilities were given for medical, nursing and social science students to study the
health services and a number of talks by members of the staff, single visits or periods of
attachment were arranged as seemed most suitable.
4,139 hospital student nurses and some 80/90 students of speech therapy from the
Central School of Speech and Drama, the Kingdon-Ward School of Speech Therapy,
the Speech Therapy Training School of the West End Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery and the Oldrey-Fleming School of Speech Therapy were attached to the
Council's clinics for varying periods up to 12 months. In addition students were received
from the following training centres:
Health Visitor Students
Battersea College of Technology
Queen's Institute of District Nursing
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
Herts and Essex General Hospital
King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
London School of Economics and Political
Science
Ministry of Labour and National Service
National Training College of Domestic Subjects
Queen Elizabeth College
Royal College of Nursing
University House
University of London Institute of Education
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