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D. HEALTH EDUCATION.
One of the most important duties of a
Public Health Department must always be health
education and the staff from time to time have
taken full advantage of the opportunities the
Committees offer for them to keep up to date.
Health Visitors, for example, have attended
the following courses during 1943:- 10 attended
a refresher course on the Social Side of
Tuberculosis Work for Health Visitors; 2 Health
Visitors attended a course by the Yi'omen Public
Health Officers Association on "How to teach";
and 1 attended the course for the Diploma in
Nursing, University of London.
From another point of view, four Student
Health Visitors have attended at Wembley during
their course of training, 3 from the Royal
College of Nursing and 1 from the National
Health Society.
The Sanitary Inspectors have also kept
their information up to date having attended,
for example, refresher courses on food decontamination,
on various points arising from the
Infestation Order, 1939, and demonstrations
with regard to rats and mice infestation, as
well as certain courses at the London School of
Hygiene on insect pests.
The Day Nursery staff have continued
their lectures and training to the students in
preparation for entering for the examination
for the Diploma of the National Society of
Children's Nurseries.
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