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Programmes were arranged for groups of student nurses to observe
activities in community care. Students from the Middlesex Hospital visit
Harrow four times a year for three days and 20/30 students attend at
clinics for infants and toddlers. They visit, with a health visitor, homes in
the Borough with children from birth to school age, ante-natal patients,
elderly and obtain experience with all types of family problems in the
community. The programme is followed up by a discussion morning at
the hospital, together with their tutors and representatives from the health
visiting team.
Similar programmes are arranged for the student nurses at the
Egdware General Hospital and case discussions attended by the group
advisors follow these visits.
Integrated students from Hillingdon Hospital, and senior pupils at
Heathfield School have been visitors to the department, also student
health visitors from other parts of the country.
Health Education in Schools
Classes were given to school leavers in home making, health and
personal hygiene, human relationships and responsibilities.
The lectures included information and brief description of world
health in the developing countries, control of world epidemics with the help
of vaccination and immunisation, also a description of the welfare state in
England.
Discussions with the help of visual aids took place on the problems of
adolescence in girls and boys, physical and emotional development,
reproduction and the development of the foetus.
The headmaster of a junior school asked for a series of talks to children
ages 10/11 years old. One of the talks was to be on physical change at
puberty and reproduction. Three classes were given. During the third class
boys and girls were separated for sex education. The girls continued with
the health visitor. The boys had a class given by Mr. Anderton, Health
Education Officer.
The third class started with a film on physiology of puberty and
reproduction. This was shown to parents the previous day. All the parents
expressed the wish for the film to be shown to their children. The children
were interested and asked many questions. More time was given to the
onset of puberty and menstruation than reproduction. These classes were
given as an experiment in the junior school. In view of the interest and their
success, the headmaster asked that they be repeated the following year.
Evening lectures were given by the health visitors to young people's
groups on accidents in the home, prophylactic medicine, home nursing,
child care and on nursing subjects to mothers' clubs, young wives' groups,
Girls' Brigade, church organisations and Territorial Army Cadets.