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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 465 visitors were received through the central office—an increase of
49 on the previous year. Of these, 409 came from overseas.
Individual overseas visitors included a member of the Indian Parliament, the Ministers
of Health for Yugoslavia and Nepal, the Chief Medical Officer for Tonga, the Deputy
Director.General of the Health Service in India and 62 doctors, 5 dental officers, 2 members
of the judiciary, 3 members of local authorities, 31 central and local government administrators,
30 social workers, 12 nurses, 4 university lecturers, 7 teachers, 7 journalists,
3 speech therapists and 6 students.
Parties included a delegation, led by the Vice.Minister, from the Polish Ministry of
Health, the President of the People's High Court and three leaders of national associations
in China, a party of 35 federal government officers and a group of 30 doctors, dentists,
social workers and administrators from the U.S.A., 30 psychiatrists from Holland, 15
midwives from France and Italy, 7 local government members from Sweden, 7 members
of the Canadian Nurses' Association, 5 social workers from Yugoslavia and a party of
27 doctors, physiotherapists, public health administrators and nurses, representing 13
European countries, on a World Health Organization course on the rehabilitation of the
physically handicapped adult. Altogether visitors were received from 64 overseas countries.
Other visitors were received at divisional offices, Woodberry Down health centre, the
London Ambulance Service headquarters and the Council's training centres for mentally
subnormal children. The health centre was visited by 1,149 people, 166 (including 68
students) from overseas and 983 (887 students) from the United Kingdom; the Ambulance
Service headquarters received 187 visitors and training centres 719 visitors including
542 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 109 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 4,519 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 Battersea College of Technology
Royal College of Nursing Battersea Training College of Domestic Science
Surrey County Council Kingsway Day College
Middlesex Hospital
North.Western Polytechnic
Speech Therapy students Royal College of Nursing
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Central School of Speech and Drama King Edward's Hospital Fund for London—
Kingdom.Ward School of Speech Staff College for Ward Sisters
Therapy University of London—
Oldrey.Fleming School of Speech Bedford College
Therapy Institute of Education
Speech Therapy Training School of the London School of Economics and Political
West End Hospital for Neurology Science
London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
Queen Elizabeth College
Women Public Health Officers' Association
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