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Insect Control
Imported Food Regulations
Fuel oil firing
Speech Therapy Refresher Course
Epilepsy
Drug taking in School Children
Health Education
Nursery Wardens' Course
Illegitimacy
Women, Family and Work
STUDENT ATTACHMENTS
The Department continued to provide facilities for a wide variety of student attachments
and references to such attachments are made elsewhere in the Report.
I would, however, draw attention to the fact that student nurses from the Friern Hospital
Nurse Training School were afforded training by way of lectures and periods of observation
of community care. This type of placement has enabled student nurses to understand the
need for cohesion between the community and hospital services.
One interesting visit made to the Department during the year was that of a member of the
Department of Social Affairs, Sudan, who wished to be given knowledge of the services and
administrative set-up for a combined Health and Welfare Department. The visitor was
appreciative of all that she saw and was told, and which would be of benefit to her in her
work in the Department of Social Affairs, Sudan.
EMERGENCY CALL SERVICE
The authority's Emergency Night and Weekend Telephone Service, which provides for
emergencies arising in all Departments of the Council, has continued to operate with a high
degree of efficiency and some indication of the importance of this service, which insofar
as this Department is concerned inter alia deals with emergency calls for midwives, social
welfare officers and mental welfare officers, is that in respect of the latter, 176 calls were
made.
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