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APPENDIX 2
SPECIAL REPORTS TO PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE
(a) Clean Food Campaign.
As the Committee will be aware, our Clean Food Campaign
was officially held from 23rd May to 3rd June, apart from visits to
schools which had to be arranged at other times owing to examina
tions and holidays. Set out below is a brief resume of the activities
included in this campaign :
Publicity.
Full publicity was given to the campaign by way of posters,
advertisements and articles in the local press, cinema slides, letters
to local organisations and to the head offices of local food shops,
the distribution of bookmarks through the libraries and labels on
all envelopes leaving the Public Health Department and the Area
Health Office. In addition to the measures set out above, the
Sanitary Inspectors paid personal visits to approximately 500
food shops and premises.
Clean Food Exhibition.
The Clean Food Exhibition was arranged in Committee Room
M.l from 23rd May to 3rd June, being open from 10 a.m. to
9 p.m. daily with the exception of Sundays and Whit Monday.
The room in which the exhibition was held was available to
the general public, and was also used for the holding of film
shows and talks. Approximately six hundred members of the
general public viewed the exhibition.

Eight different films were shown during the campaign.
Meeting of Women's Organisations at Arnos School, 1st June.
The attendance at this meeting was poor, only fifty people
being present. The meeting was opened by Councillor Prior,
Chairman of the Public Health Committee, and was also
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