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New filmstrips "Teenagers Feet" and "First Aid" were purchased as additions to the filmstrip library.
Talks to new overseas students in the technical colleges on health and hygiene in Great Britain
were requested and were most successful.
Requests for talks from outside organisations were particularly disappointing in 1965, but this was
attributed to the re-organisation of local government and the department's move from Kilburn to Wembley
causing confusion to some members of the public. The matter appears to have picked up in the latter weeks
and requests began to arrive for talks to be given in 1966.
A course of first aid lectures was conducted for the Willesden Branch of the British Red Cross by
the Senior Medical Officer.
The Department was represented at the Brent Show. Photographs and coloured film loops of
actual scenes in the Borough were produced and shown on a back projector. These were found to be particularly
eye catching.
MEDICAL ASSESSMENTS AND MEDICAL REPORTS
Prior to 1st April 1965, both Wembley and Willesden Borough Council employees were required to
undergo a full medical examination on appointment to the permanent staff, and 29 examinations were carried
out from 1st January to 31st March.
The Middlesex County Council, however, required new employees to complete a medical assessment
form and, provided this was satisfactory, this met the Council's requirements. A full medical examination
was only carried out if considered necessary by the Assessing Medical Officer. 291 assessments were dealt with
from 1st January to 31st March.
The assessment procedure has been adopted for Brent employees (except for teachers and applicants
for entry to teacher training colleges), and 1,391 assessment forms were dealt with from 1st April to the end of
the year. There is no doubt that this procedure results in a great saving of the time of professional staff and
achieves the desired result at low cost.
It is a requirement of the Ministry of Education and Science that all teachers on their first appointment
and applicants for entry into teacher training colleges be medically examined. 209 teachers and 139
trainees were examined by Middlesex and Brent Medical Officers.
Three members of the staff were recommended for retirement on the grounds of permanent ill-health.