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6. Dental Officers "Resuscitation".
7. School Nurses "Health Education in Junior and Infant Schools".
8. Doctors and Health Visitors (Monthly) Lunch-time clinical discussions
with Dr. G. Crosse, Consultant Child Psychiatrist.
9. Health Visitors "Hearing Test Techniques".
10. District Nursing Auxiliaries "Health Services", "Work of the Health
Visitor", "Working in Clinics", "Normal Play".
11. Local Government Staff 2 full courses in First Aid (St. John) given by
the Deputy Medical Officer of Health.
12. "Way/and" Staff "Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation".
13. Multidisciplinary Public Health Staff "Medical Management in a Local
Health Authority". A course run by the Deputy Medical Officer of Health,
14. Newly Appointed Health Visitors "Health Education in Croydon".
Professional Training Courses
Future health services' staff need to regard health education as a constructive
and integral part of their duties and not as a time-consuming 'extra',
During the year the following groups visited the Health Education Section for
one or more sessions:—
Nursery nurses, pupil and student nurses, district nurses, midwives,
health visitors, health visitor fieldwork instructors, health visitor community
health tutors and health education students from:—
London Boroughs' Training Committee
A constant flow of visitors also came from as far away as Sydney,
Johannesburg, Denmark and Sweden.
Public Health Inspectors were a great help throughout the year covering
many aspects of environmental health and food hygiene.
Industrial Health
Work on personal health and food hygiene was undertaken at Littlewoods,
Grants, Marks and Spensers and the John Lewis Partnership. The Industrial
Chaplain brought twelve engineering students to the Department for a discussion
on the health services. Preparations were made for the first meeting
after Christmas of local occupational health nurses.
Croydon General Hospital
Mayday Hospital
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Midwives
Health Visitors' Association
Croydon Technical College
Chiswick Polytechnic
Medway and Maidstone
College of Technology
London University
Surrey University