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problems of Europe, though varying from country to country, have
sufficient similarity to warrant discussion on a collective basis.
Delegates were given the opportunity of attending at various
centres to see what is being done in this country ; and, at the
request of the Ministry of Health, arrangements were made for a
party to visit Leyton on Wednesday, 15th April. The delegates
were taken to view the Health Education shop window, 280 High
Road ; then to the Mass Radiography Unit, where they saw the
X-raying of persons working in shops and factories.
A visit was afterwards made to Dawlish Road Health Clinic,
where the Chiropody Clinic, Minor Ailments Clinic and Dental
Services were inspected. The party then proceeded to Park House
Health Clinic, where the County Foot Exhibit was displayed, and
films on the Care of the Feet, and Teaching Children to Walk,
were being shown by the County Health Education Officer to
nursing mothers and children attending the Clinic session. The
delegates viewed the Infant Welfare Clinic in progress, and then
had a discussion lasting an hour and a half. They were most
impressed with what they had seen, and it is felt that the visit was
of mutual interest both to the delegates and to medical and nursing
staff of the County Council.
The delegates were :—
1. The Director of Social Hygiene, Ministry of Hygiene and
Population, France.
2. Superintendent Health Visitor, Orleans, France.
3. The Director of Inter-Departmental Centre for Health
Education, France.
4. Director-General of Social Medicine, Ministry of Public
Health and the Family, Belgium.
5. Public Health Officer, Federal Ministry of Interior, Bonn,
Germany.