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and the General Nursing Council. We also have a considerable
number of girls each year taking an alternative course which leads
to the necessary exemption from Part I of the Pre-Nursing
Examination : in this, with a sound, varied education, they take
the Ordinary Level Examination in Human Physiology, Anatomy
and Hygiene.
(c) William Morns County Technical School.—Mr. H. P.
Williamson, M.Sc. (Educ.), B.Sc., reports as follows:—
"This school continues to provide a Course leading to exemption
from Part I of the General Nursing Council's Preliminary
Examination. It is not now usual for Preliminary Part I at the
Examination to be taken as such, students obtaining exemption as
a result of passing the subject of Human Biology in the General
Certificate of Education at Ordinary Level. The main features of
the Course remain the same. The basic subjects, English, History,
Geography, Mathematics and P.E., are continued side by side with
General Science and Anatomy and Physiology, Hygiene and the
elements of Public Health.
"Visits to Hospitals, Welfare Departments, Milk Pasteurisation
Plants and Public Services such as Water Works and Sewage
Disposal Plants continue to form an integral part of the Course
for the full appreciation of which they are essential. A number
of girls who have followed this Course at School are now qualified
nurses serving in London area hospitals. All of these and the
nurses already in training are unanimous in their opinion that the
School Pre-Nursing Course has been a great help to them while in
hospital.
"Not all, either girls or parents, realise that a nurse should be
a really well educated person and to this end it is highly desirable
that boys and girls taking up nursing as a career should remain at
school until they are 18 years of age and able to begin their full
nursing training in hospitals. Some girls think that if they leave
school at 16 years, follow some clerical occupation for a year or so,
and then go to hospital, they are as well placed to render first rate
nursing services as if they had continued their full-time education.
This is not so. The more responsible the work demanded of nurses,
the more important it is that their standards of general education
on entering nursing training should be as high as those required
for entry to teaching training and similar occupations.
"The School has room for more girls in this Pre-Nursing
Course and the attention of our young people is called to the
satisfying career of service which nursing provides."
First Aid Equipment in Schools.—In October the Borough
Education Officer circulated to Head Teachers a list of approved
first aid equipment to be maintained in schools. Head Teachers