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6. Sessions on the supporting services for the family, accident prevention
and childbirth were given by health education staff to the Home Help
courses.
7. A week's course was held for district nurse group leaders learning to
manage a small group of nurses and to train pupil nurses.
8. Health visitors, midwives and physiotherapists took part in a one-day
course on preparation for childbirth, which resulted in a better understanding
of the role of each discipline and a new syllabus.
The Health Education Section was also visited regularly by pre-nursing
and nursery nurse students from Croydon Technical College and by teachers,
health visitor students, health visitor fieldwork instructors, health visitor
and nurse tutors for discussion and demonstrations of health education in
practice. They came one or more times from fourteen different colleges in
London and the South East.
Regular sessions on the social aspects of disease continued at Mayday
and Croydon General Hospitals.
Time was also given to World Health Organisation Fellows and other
visitors from overseas studying public health and health education services
in Great Britain. Thev came from:—
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
Greece
Yugoslavia
Australia
Ireland
Israel
Pakistan and
Ceylon
Home Safety
A completely new set of home safety and health education topics were
demonstrated at the Ashburton Flower Show and each stand was designed to
encourage the participation of the public and also so that it could be used
in other educational activities afterwards. Education in accident
prevention becomes more difficult as more dangerous drugs and substances
and more complicated domestic appliances appear on the market. There will
be an increased need soon for the in-service training of staff on the technical
aspects of accident prevention.
In spite of staff changes within the Health Education Section the volume
of work increased greatly during the year. The additional help given by
health visitors, public health inspectors and doctors was very much
appreciated.
For details see Appendix page 114.