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emphasis will be on gas room heaters, offpeak electric storage
heaters, and on openable stoves which can use the hard and less
reactive coke still in plentiful supply. Grants to householders
will be increased to cover the higher costs of these
appliances, so that future programmes will cost more. The
overall increase in householders* costs will be more apparent
than real, as the tendency to fit these superior appliances has
long been clear. A grant can now be based on actual costs
instead of on notional costs of a cheaper and less efficient
appliance which until now has left an increasing number of
householders paying far the greater part of the cost of the
conversion they selected.
From now on progress in this field will be slower and more
costly. In many homes the necessary changes will be more
radical. Those authorities who have been dragging their feet
will see in this justification for their inactivity. But
better standards of heating are no more than one factor in a
better standard of living, and the new situation will do no more
than bring the Clean Air programme into line with the standards
that most prople are already seeking.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
During the year the scope of Health Education in the
Borough has widened considerably. This is a natural development
for, as its practice increases, so fresh problems will
emerge. Additional subjects have been included in the programme
under review, and new audiences have accepted the
Borough's lecture services.
The first serious work on the problems of smoking and
health was commenced in 1963- In May a campaign against
smoking was held in which the Central Council for Health Education
supplied a lecture unit for service in the Borough. A
programme of lectures and demonstrations was arranged, which
brought the unit into personal contact with a series of young
audiences in schools throughout the Borough, The Unit also
had meetings with the Hampstead Rotary Club, the Diocesan Chapter,
Youth Leaders working in the Borough, and with Student
Teachers of Domestic Science at Berridge House.
Later in the year L.C.C. Division 2 carried out a similar
project in schools, and this was supported by a poster display
throughout Hampstead and the issue of leaflets and bookmarks.
During the whole of the year a continuous programme of lectures,
films and demonstrations on this subject was carried out in Youth