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audio-visual aids for display and project work. Circulation trebled immed-
iately following Issue No.l, in October, 1970.
Research is an important and essential aspect of Health Education. In
this, the Borough Service has contributed to testing of the latest plastic
medicine and pill containers as well as comparing these with tests on
medicine bottles. The aim has been to help production of containers that
are "Safe" and cannot be easily opened by children, yet are also practical
for elderly people with arthritic hands or other handicaps.
Another interesting feature has been research into the effects of
sound and light presentations, now popular in discobars and discotheques.
Studies are continuing into the mental and physical aspects of kinetic
experiences.
Major campaigns have required the production of mobile teaching units
which are made available on loan to educational establishments, or profess-
ional organisations. The feature on "Epilepsy", which also highlights the
work of the British Epilepsy Association, has been "On tour" from Garnett
Teacher Training College, Wandsworth, to Plymouth's Mayflower Celebrations!
In co-operation with the Borough Dietician, the "Food for Thought" campaign
has included comprehensive information on nutrition, dietetics, safe
slimming, and home economics; plus a range of helpful advice for loan "Bed-
Sit" students, young mothers, and elderly persons living alone often with
physical handicaps A "Home Safety Campaign" combined the display of a
specially-designed bathroom unit with details of the Borough's Home
Modernisation Schemes for which a variety of grants are now available-Full
support has been given to the RoSPA Home Safety Year,
Increased attendances have been noted at the "Design for living"
Exhibition, especially in the l4+ group; with special assistance provided
for individual and group project work.
The Exhibition has extended its Programmed Learning facilities which
now include the Classmaster, Synchrofax, Stillitron, Bingley Tutor, and
Bell and Howell (Language Master) Systems, What is unique is that the
Service offers Borough-produced programmes on a wide range of Health
Education themes, and most are the first of their type in Britain
Renal Dialysis (Artificial Kidney Machines)
Patients with diseased or non-functioning kidneys can now be kept
alive by a process of renal dialysis, using a kidney machine, These patients
have to attend hospital two or three times a week and stay overnight while
the dialysis process is being carried out, Apart from the inconvenience
and disruption of their normal life, these patients also occupy a valuable
hospital bed during the process of treatment-
Local authorities can carry out adaptations to premises to enable such
patients to dialyse themselves at home.
During the year, a young woman who had been under treatment in hospital
with a kidney machine was throught to be fit for home dialysis. She was re-
housed in a flat, specially adapted for renal dialysis so that she could
carry out this procedure herself at home.
Another patient was referred for home dialysis Arrangements for
adaptation of his house were commenced but had to be stopped when his
hospital reported that medical complications had rendered him an unsuitable
subject for home dialysis.
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