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" I should like to mention the co-operation we have received
from the family doctors in the area, and also from the Superintendent
Health Visitor and her staff in visiting the elderly
patients."
HEALTH EDUCATION
(a) At Schools.
This is referred to in the report of the Borough School Medical
Officer and included talks to Parents' Associations and lectures on
good grooming to Senior Girls' Departments.
(b) Display Material.
A portable exhibit was loaned by the Crusader Insurance
Company for approximately one month in the Spring. The exhibit
stressed safety in the home and was displayed at several Welfare
Centres.
(c) Films.
During the year attention was drawn by the Ministry of
Health to a film dealing with sensitivity to antibiotics and an
improved injection technique. Arrangements were made to show
this and four otljer Health Education films to the medical and
nursing staffs of the Forest, Leyton and Walthamstow Health Areas
in October and approximately eighty persons attended. The antibiotic
film was of particular interest to home nurses, especially as
two of the staff from the Walthamstow District Nurses' Home
undergoing their Queen's training at the Leytonstone Home
appeared in the film.
(d) General Nursing Council—Training Syllabus.
The Superintendent Health Visitor reports as follows :—
" It was agreed and arranged in Essex that a series of lectures
on the social aspects of disease be given by selected Health
Visitors to 3rd year student nurses in hospitals in or near their
area. The practical work for the student nurses was also
discussed and it was decided that the students should have two
days practical work in the Public Health field.
" I arranged with the Matron of Connaught Hospital to
give the first series of four lectures in January, 1954. The
subjects of these lectures were :—
1 Positive Health : Social Background of Ill-health.'
' The Local Authority's contribution to the Maintenance
of Positive Health.'
' Diseases with special social significance and the role of the
medico-social worker in prevention and after care.