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Four student health visitors qualified and in September joined the staff as health
visitors. Four other students were selected and sponsored and began their training in
September.
Four midwives attended statutory five-yearly refresher courses; and four home
nurses, as required by the Council, attended three-yearly refresher courses. A further
two home nurses undertook the District Nurse Training Course at Chiswick
Polytechnic.
Mr. S. N. Dance, Chief Administrative Officer, attended a course in Management
for senior professional and administrative staffs in Health, Welfare, and Children's
Departments.
One clerical officer was approved for attendance at a day release course for the
Local Government Clerical Examination at Tottenham Technical College. Two
officers were approved by the Council to go forward on studies leading to the Diploma
in Municipal Administration.
Three shorthand typists attended the Tottenham Technical College for Royal
Society of Arts certificates. Four new junior members of the staff completed the
thirteen-week Local Government Induction Course.
Two nursery students at the day nursery began their two-year day-release Course
at Tottenham Technical College, for the Nursery Nurses Examination Board certificate.
Two nursery students continued, and two further students completed this
course.
Three half-day meetings were organised by the Principal Medical Officer for
School Health. Between seventy and ninety members of the Health, Education,
Children's and Welfare Departments were present, as well as colleagues from
neighbouring boroughs such as Barnet and Haringey. Those attending included
doctors, nurses, mental welfare officers, psychologists, teachers, child care and welfare
officers, and administrative officers. With the kind permission of the Chief Education
Officer, all the meetings were held at the Teachers' Centre, Craddock Road, Enfield.
At the first meeting, on Monday, 14th April, 1969, Dr. R. Greenberg (Principal
Medical Officer for Mental Health, London Borough of Barnet), spoke on " Drug
Addiction ". On Tuesday, 15th April, Dr. Esther Simpson (Principal Medical Officer,
Department of Education and Science), spoke on " The School Health Service and
Its Future ". Both these lectures were followed by group and general discussion. On
Thursday, 29th May, lectures were given on " The Deaf Child " by Dr. L. Fisch
(Consultant Audiologist, Hospital for Sick Children, and Heston and Tottenham
Audiology Clinics), and Miss Brinson (a peripatetic teacher of the deaf). They subsequently
led a discussion and answered questions. The purpose of these symposia
on aspects of School Health is to bring together people of different disciplines
concerned with school children — and particularly handicapped pupils — as well as
to instruct in technicalities.
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