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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 375 visitors were received through the central office—of whom 261 came
from overseas.
Individual overseas visitors included the Minister of Health for India, two members of
the Parliament of Ceylon, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Nigeria,
the Jamaican High Commissioner for Canada, the President of the Women's Wing of the
National Convention of Nigerian Citizens and the President of the Women's Emancipation
Society and Relief Society of Iran. Other visitors included the British Ambassador to Viet.
Nam and the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire County Council Mental Health Sub.
Committee.
Parties included members of the House of Assembly of Eastern Nigeria, an official
delegation from Algeria, the Public Health Sub.Committee of the Social Committee of
the Council of Europe, a party of Swedish County Councillors, a group of print workers
from the Soviet Union and a party of Russian doctors on the staff of the World Health
Organisation.
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 901 people, 112 from overseas and
789 (710 students) from the United Kingdom; the Ambulance Service headquarters received
209 visitors and training centres 490 visitors, including 450 students.
Facilities were again provided for medical, nursing and social science students to study
the health services. Courses of visits of observation and talks were arranged for postgraduate
students preparing for the Diploma in Child Health and the Diploma in Public
Health. Members of the department's nursing staff gave talks to student nurses at hospitals
and programmes were arranged to enable 3,800 of these students to gain practical experience.