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VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT
During the year 419 visitors were received through the central office—of whom 182
came from overseas. As in past years many visits were arranged at the request of authoritative
bodies, amongst which were the Ministry of Health, the British Council, the Central Office
of Information, the Women's Council and several foreign embassies.
Individual overseas visitors included H.R.H. Princess Himalaya Bir Bikram Shah Deva,
sister of the King of Nepal; the Chairman of the Municipal Corporation of Karachi;
the Director of the Maternity and Child Welfare Service and the Director of Commission
of Public Health, Cairo; the Head of Pathological Services, California and the Head of
Bureau of Sanitary Health, Kobe City.
Parties included members of Bombay Municipal Corporation and members of the
National Assembly of Malawi. Another party comprised some 40 participants in a World
Health Organisation Mental Health Seminar.
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 635 people, 72 from overseas and
563 (506 students) from the United Kingdom; the Ambulance Service headquarters received
350 visitors and training centres 471 visitors, including 357 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 3,900 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
University of London (Institute of Education)
Speech therapy students
Speech Therapy Training School of the West
End Hospital for Neurology
Other students (medical, nursing, teaching
and social science)
Bedford College
Cheshire County Training College
London School of Economics and Political Science
National Association for Mental Health
National Children's Home Staff Training College
North Western Polytechnic
Nottingham Training College
Queen's Institute of District Nursing
University College of Swansea
University of Edinburgh
University of Exeter
University of London—Institute of Education
University of London—Department of Social Studies
University of Manchester
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