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SECTION VII
MISCELLANEOUS
HEALTH EDUCATION SERVICE
Following the expansion of activities in the years following
the inception of the London Borough, 1968 marked a year of
retrenchment and consolidation along established lines. While
some new ventures were essayed, the main achievement was in
steady expansion within the existing framework.
Two events denoted the year in broader terms. The longawaited
Health Education Council was established, although it
was not before October that operations commenced on a functional
basis. Secondly, the emerging interest of the Inner London
Education Authority in the question of health education in
schools followed closely upon the heels of the Greenwich School
Health Education Service initiated in 1967 and included in my
Report of that year. A Health Education Conference was called
at County Hall early in 1968 and was followed by a request for
Divisional Education Officers to hold their own conferences and
lend their support to the endeavours of local heath authority
health education staffs. Arrangements for conferences are necessarily
protracted, but the provisional arrangements agreed by the
close of the year were for two conferences—one for primary
teachers and one for secondary teachers—to be held early in 1969.
Many of the services mentioned in the following review of
the activities of the Service have been described in detail in
previous years. In the current Report, therefore, only statistical
change has been recorded, with fuller explanation included in
new innovations.
Health Education Programmes to Local Organisations
The number of programmes showed a slight increase on the
previous year, indicating that the positive approach adopted
with local organisations meeting in the Borough is effective in
invoking a growing response. As in past years, the following
tables give an analysis of subject matter and types of organisation
visited.