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an up-to-date and efficient Health Visitors' service facilities
should enable all in their health education duties to be abreast
with current information and methods, otherwise recent medical
and educational advancement might be lost to the public. The
Council have authorised that arrangements may be made for
places at appropriate refresher courses for four Health Visitors
annually, generally two in London and two in the provinces.
Medical Officers attended the Annual Congress of the Royal
Sanitary Institute and the Conference of the National Society of
Maternity and Child Welfare Association, the Chief Sanitary
Inspector attended the Annual Conferences of the Sanitary Inspectors'
Association and the National Smoke Abatement Society.
Three Student Health Visitors from the Royal College of Nursing
attended in Wembley for their practical instruction, while those
attending a Post Graduate Refresher Course of the Royal College
of Nursing visited Wembley to see the Day Nurseries and Health
Clinics and other special points of interest in the Maternity and
Child Welfare and School Health Services. Several groups of
schoolgirls from Kingsbury Senior School have enjoyed a conducted
visit to a Day Nursery and Infant Welfare Clinic, while
four Teachers from Barham School asked to be shown the Day
Nursery Service. By such contacts as 'these the Health Officers
are themselves stimulated and have opportunity to interest others
in health education generally.
With the concurrence of the Council the Medical Officer of
Health has conducted classes in Public Health Administration for
medical practitioners attending the Public Health Course of the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Borough
has been approved by the University of London for such tuition.
The Royal College of Nursing has also ibeen sending to Wembley
Student Health Visitors for the practical part of their training,
while request has been received from Battersea Polytechnic for
Student Sanitary Inspectors to (be given practical experience and
tuition in Wembley.
The following work was carried out by the Central Council
for Health Education:—
2 Courses, each of 3 talks, on Sex Education to Fellowship of
Young Mothers, Kingsbury Free Church.
Talk on Sex Education to Parent-Teacher Association at
Alperton Secondary School.
With regard to Health Education, the Delegate Conference
conducted by the Council in May was an important step and the
exhaustive paper submitted by the Mayor (then Chairman of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee) has done much to
acquaint the public of the Borough's Health Services and the
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