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Departmental Services
In addition to other services, those of Health Education provide
numerous facilities such as printing, notices, posters, design, artwork
and display panels for different departmental sections. These
services also include the provision of audio-visual aid equipment,
the previewing of films, etc., for use in "in-service" training and for
public showing.
On 81 occasions the Service was called upon to show films on
behalf of other staff during duty hours and 30 times out of duty
hours and, during the year, 40 films were given previews.
Films in the possession of the Service are loaned to neighbouring
Boroughs on a friendly basis. This facility was made use of on 13
occasions.
Mental Health Week—4th to 10th June, 1967.
This year a large programme of activities was prepared for the
second of a triennial series of weeks devoted to bringing the problems of the mentally disordered to the notice of the general public.
It included a small exhibition in the main hall of the Town Hall
at Woolwich and a subsidiary display was organised through the
courtesy of a local church.
Open days were arranged for mental health establishments and,
in addition to an expanded circulation and display of posters,
hand-bills and car stickers, special news items were sent during the
preceding week to the local press advertising the coming campaign.
"They Have A Future"
Undoubtedly the highlight of the campaign was the production of
a film on the work of the Maze Hill Junior Training Centre for
the Mentally Handicapped scheduled to have its premier showing
at the meeting of the Greenwich Society for the Mentally Handicapped during "campaign" week.
Shooting of the film, which is in 16 mm. colour, with magnetic
soundtrack and lasting 35 minutes, commenced in February and
continued over a period of two months. Editing, soundtracking and
copying occupied a further month. With the exception of the
copying, the whole of the production was carried out by the
Health Education Section.
Whilst the film perhaps lacks a professional finish, the fact that
the camera team became familiar to the children at the Centre
ensured a natural and spontaneous result. The film depicts a day
in the life of the Centre, in particular, illustrating the effects of a
stimulating educational environment on the development of
mentally handicapped children and showing that, by progressive