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education programmes, and during 1954 about 10,000 posters and 300,000 leaflets were
supplied to divisions. About 2,800 copies of the Central Council for Health Education's
publication ' Better Health ' were also distributed each month from welfare centres.
Exhibits
There is now a wide variety or materials available for visual education, and steps were
taken during the year to acquire further models, photographs and exhibits for display
purposes. Use was made of the health education topic service organised by the Central
Council for Health Education and exhibits on various health subjects were shown
throughout the year at welfare centres and other establishments.
Lectures
Fifteen evening public lectures on health topics were given during the year by medical
and nursing staff who also gave instruction to student nurses at hospitals in personal and
communal health and the social aspects of disease. About 120 members of the staff
attended two lectures given by Dr. Emrys Davies of the Central Council for Health
Education dealing with aids in health education.
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Press publicity
statements issued through the Council s Press Officer to local newspaper editors
dealing with various health aspects received favourable press publicity, particularly
those dealing with accidents in the home, diphtheria immunisation and B.C.G.
vaccination of school children against tuberculosis.
Provision of
care and
treatment for
the mentally
ill
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts
the work of placing persons suffering from mental illness under care and control
continued to be operated centrally from the County Hall on a 24-hour day basis ;
8,690 cases were referred to the mental welfare officers, compared with 8,081 in 1953.