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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 416 visitors, including 307 from overseas, were received through the
central office—an increase of 73 on the previous year. Programmes of talks with senior
officers and visits to the Council's establishments, varying in duration from one day to
several weeks, were arranged as necessary.
Parties included one of 22 health workers, teachers and instructors and another of 40
doctors and health workers from Germany, 40 Froebel students from Denmark, 12 African
child care workers from Ghana, Nigeria, Rhodesia and Kenya and a number of wives
and friends of delegates to the Atlantic Congress (N.A.T.O.). Visitors were received from
51 countries and included 15 members of governments, 72 doctors (including 2 psychiatrists)
29 health visitors and nurses, 4 students, 16 social workers, 5 teachers, 4 journalists, 27
central and local government administrative officers, 3 architects, 2 speech therapists and
4 dental officers. In addition a number of visitors were received at divisional health offices.
Woodberry Down Health Centre was visited by 1,353 people, 282 (including 124 students)
from overseas and 1,071 (923 students) from the United Kingdom. The London ambulance
service headquarters received 166 visitors and occupation centres 618 visitors (462 students).
Facilities were again provided for medical, nursing and social science students to study
the health services. Courses of ten or twenty visits of observation and talks were arranged
for 107 post-graduate students preparing for the Diploma in Child Health. Members of
the department's nursing staff gave talks to student nurses at hospitals and programmes
were arranged to enable 4,005 of these students to gain practical experience. Talks by
members of the staff and/or visits of observation and periods of attachment were also
arranged for students from the following training centres:
Health visitor students Other students (medical, nursing, teaching
and social science)
Battersea College of Technology Avery Hill Training College
Royal College of Nursing Battersea Training College of Domestic Science
South East Essex Technical College King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Surrey County Council Queen Alexandra Military Hospital
The University, Southampton Royal College of Nursing
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Speech therapy students University of London
Central School of Speech and Drama Bedford College
Kingdon-Ward School of Speech Therapy London School of Economics and Political
Oldrey-Fleming School of Speech Therapy Science
Speech Therapy Training School of the Queen Elizabeth College
West End Hospital for Neurology Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine
and Neurosurgery West Ham College of Technology
Women Public Health Officers' Association
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