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infant welfare centres, minor ailment clinics, medical and
hygiene inspections in schools.
(c) Three health visitor students, two from South-East
Essex Technical College and one from Battersea Polytechnic,
carried out three months of their practical training in the
Borough. Again they were allocated to specific health visitors
in order to preserve continuity and to correlate their practical
and theoretical work.
(d) Three health visitor students were given practical
training in the tuberculosis field, both in home visiting and
clinics.
(e) During the year seven student nursery nurses visited
infant welfare, ante-natal, minor ailments and other special
clinics in order to meet the requirements of their training
syllabus. Certain selected home visits were paid by health visitors
accompanied by student nursery nurses to permit them to
observe breast feeding and artificial feeding in the home.
(f) Pupil midwives from Thorpe Coombe Maternity
Hospital attended four sessions at infant welfare clinics in
accordance with the rules of the Central Midwives Board.
"We are still fortunate in maintaining a reasonable level of
staffing despite the general shortage of health visitors. At the end
of the year we nominally had a full establishment, but one member
unfortunately had been absent for a prolonged period of sickness.
During 1957 one member of the staff transferred to Harlow and
was replaced by a health visitor from Yorkshire."
HOME NURSING
(Section 25)
Miss N. Chadwick, S.R.N., S.C.M., H.V. Cert., Superintendent
of the District Nurses' Training Home, reports as follows:—
"Queen's Training.—During the year four nurses took
their Queen's examination and were all successful. In July a
male nurse commenced his Queen's training, the examination
taking place in 1958.
"Carnival Week.—We held a successful 'Tiny Tots'
Parade in the garden of the Home. All the nurses took part
in the Carnival held in aid of local charities.
"We were able to supply 41 parcels to needy patients from
the Nurses' own funds, chiefly obtained through Beetle Drives,
Jumble Sales and Raffles.