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The exhibition stands and topics of the Central Council for Health Education
were displayed throughout the year and, with posters and leaflets, formed the basis
of our " silent " health education effort.
There were 1,400 attendances at 16 courses of lectures on sex education arranged
for youth clubs. Five of the courses were illustrated by film-strips. In the case of
mixed clubs the course of three lectures is arranged so that one of the lectures is
given separately to boys and girls ; it has been found that this facilitates the asking
and answering of the more intimate questions. Four talks, mainly dealing with the
way in which sex should be taught to children, were given to parent-teacher associations
(2) and mothers' meetings (2). The attendances at these four talks totalled 110.
Exhibitions
The Council co-operated in three exhibitions during the year:—
In May the accident section of the ambulance service was featured in New
Scotland Yard's exhibition "Whitehall 1212" held in an Oxford St. store.
At the beginning of November the Fulham borough council held their
Golden Jubilee exhibition and a stand was allocated to the Council to show the
growth of the maternity and child welfare services.
For a fortnight in November, we again (as in 1949) had a stand in the Mothercraft
Exhibition at the Central Hall, Westminster on which the Council's services
for mothers and babies were depicted. Health visitors attended at the stand by
rota to answer questions and to distribute health education leaflets.
Foot clinics
The Council continued to administer the twenty-six foot clinics which had been
established by the metropolitan borough councils before 5th July, 1948. During
the year the clinic at Charlton Lane, S.E.7, was closed, the sessions being transferred
to Fairfield House, Fairfield Grove, S.E.7, and a clinic which had been approved
in principle by the Minister of Health before 5th July, 1948, was opened at 48,
Glenthorne Road, W.6. No other steps were taken to extend the service pending
a decision by the Minister of Health as to whether chiropody is a form of treatment
which should be provided by local health authorities.

*Some sessions are attended by more than one chiropodist.
The majority of treatments provided at the clinics are for superficial excrescences
(corns, callosities, etc.), and malformed nails. Advice is given on shoe fitting, foot
hygiene and exercises.
Recuperative holidays
The demand for recuperative holidays continued to grow during the year and
further recuperative holiday home accommodation was approved for the reception of
persons of all categories medically recommended for a recuperative holiday.
Unaccompanied
children
The services of voluntary organisations such as the Invalid Children's Aid
Association, Women's Voluntary Services, Jewish Board of Guardians and the
Children's Country Holiday Fund, continued to be used in connection with the
provision of recuperative holidays for unaccompanied children and the Council's
experiment by which selected children over the age of 7 years are sent to a private
hotel at the seaside in the care of holiday organising staff appointed by the Council
was extended and approved as an integral part of the Council's provision for