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Early in 1951 a "Brains Trust" was held at the Town Hall to
which the general public were invited., The team of experts which
included the Chairman of the Guild, the Chairman of the Health
Committee, a representative from the Ministry of rood and the
Medical Officer of Health, answered questions put to them by the
audience ranging over a wide field and covering most aspects of
food-hygiene.
In May of the same year a clean rood Exhibition was held at
the Town Hall. Exhibits provided by the Ministry of rood, the
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the central Council for
Health Education, the Public Health Department, and the Guild,
illustrated the necessity for care in the handling of food, the
dangers which might arise as the result of improper practices,
and the best methods to be adopted in the preparation, storage and
exposure for sale, rood care in the home was also covered by exhibits.
It is estimated that between 2,500 and 3,000 members of the
general public visited the Exhibition during the week, that it was
open. Each day visiting parties of children from the senior schools
in the Borough Joined in specially designed demonstrations.
As a means of obtaining publicity to the work of the Guild,
and to call attention to the council's campaign for cleaner food,
a number of shopping list pads and bookmarks were prepared. The
shopping list pads were distributed to housewives through Trader
Members, the cost being shared between the Trader Members and the
Council, and the bookmarks were distributed through the public Libraries.
In 1953, the Guild, in conjunction with the Health committee,
published a handbook on "rood Hygiene", and copies were distributed
to various Organisations throughout the Borough and to members of
the public. The booklet, which dealt, amongst other things, with the
causes of food poisoning, and gave Information about how it can be
prevented, proved very popular, and requests for copies were received
from many local Authorities all over the country and from as far afield
as Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.
During the week commencing 8th February, 1954, a Health Exhibition
was held at the Town Hall under the auspices of the London county
Council at which were shown the services provided by the London County
Council, the Metropolitan Borough Councils and a number of voluntary
agencies for the Inhabitants of Chelsea, FUlham, Kensington and Hammersmith.
A comprehensive exhibit on behalf of the Borough council's Health
Services showed how the Sanitary Inspectors and other officers protect
the public by checking food premises, sampling food and drugs, etc.,
and also included the work and activities of the Guild, copies of the
"Food Hygiene" booklet and leaflets were distributed to schoolchildren
and members of the public who attended the Exhibition.
In the same year, on the occasion of the Mayor's Reception at the
Town Hall, an Exhibition featuring the work of the Guild and the council's
Clean rood campalgn was staged in one of the committee rooms.
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