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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 634 visitors were received through the central office—of whom 426 came
from overseas.
Individual overseas visitors included the Speaker of the Federal Assembly of Nigeria,
a member of the Malayan Parliament, the Ministers of Health for Mali, the Western
Province of Nigeria, and Yugoslavia, the Minister of Social Service for the Leeward Islands,
the Deputy Director of Health for Western Australia and 56 doctors, two dental officers,
nine members of central and local governments, 14 central and local government officers,
35 social workers, 15 nurses, one university lecturer, five teachers, eight journalists, seven
speech therapists, one architect, three hospital administrators and 17 students.
Parties included delegates from eight countries to a World Health Organisation seminar
in medical rehabilitation, a civic party from Zehlendorf, West Berlin, a group of youth
leaders from Guinea, 100 delegates to the European Congress of the European League of
Societies for the Mentally Handicapped and members of the Fourth Japanese Medical
Survey Tour. Altogether visitors were received from 56 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 1,216 people, 211 (including 84
students) from overseas and 1,005 (905 students) from the United Kingdom; the Ambulance
Service headquarters received 188 visitors and training centres 767 visitors, including
536 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 104 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 3,892 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
Battersea College of Technology
Royal College of Nursing
Surrey County Council
University of Southampton
Speech therapy students
Central School of Speech and Drama
Kingdom-Ward School of Speech
Therapy
Oldrey-Fleming School of Speech
Therapy
Speech Therapy Training School of the
West End Hospital for Neurology
Other students (medical, nursing, teaching
and social science)
Battersea College of Technology
Battersea Training College of Domestic Science
King Edward's Hospital Fund for London—
Course for Overseas Hospital Administrators
National Association for Mental Health
North-Western Polytechnic
Queen's Institute for District Nursing
Royal College of Nursing
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
University of London—
Bedford College
Institute of Education
London School of Economics and Political
Science
London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
Queen Elizabeth College
Women Public Health Officers' Association
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