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VISITORS AND STUDENTS
Facilities were again afforded during the year to students of the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Army School of Health, the
National College of Food Technology, and the Institute of Education to see aspects of port
health work relating to their studies.
Public Health workers were also received from a number of countries, including British
Guiana, Ceylon,France, Ghana, Holland, New Zealand, West Germany and the U.S.A. In addition,
assistance was given to public health officers from the Admiralty, the City of Rochester and the
Borough of Nuneaton, and a party of members of the National Society for Clean Air were enabled
to visit shipping in the Tilbury Dock.
The training of students and the care of visitors inevitably involves the Port Health Inspectors
and other staff of the Port Health Authority in additional and at times onerous work, and it is
gratifying to note the remarkable goodwill and patience which has been shown. We have always
felt that the training of students, particularly from the under-developed areas, is a most inspiring
and effective contribution to international health and welfare; its ultimate value cannot be
measured but we do know that many students have returned to their homes full of praise and
enthusiasm for our work in the Port of London and that this has borne good fruit in a more helpful
attitude towards British shipping and commerce.
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