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The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association kindly agreed that the Council's film B.C.G.
' B.C.G. Vaccination ' might again be shown for a week at each cinema at the discretion vaccination
of their members in London. It was agreed that the necessary arrangements might be
made direct between divisional medical officers and managers of cinemas, so that its
showing would occur at the most effective time, having regard to the arrangements
for the B.C.G. vaccination of schoolchildren in the locality.
One hundred and eighty-seven shows were arranged, most of them at maternity Films and
and child welfare centres, during which three hundred and twenty-five films on health fllm Strips
topics were shown and four hundred and forty-six film strips were used from the
central library of Film Strips.
A leaflet was prepared for distribution to heads of schools and to schoolkeepers on Dysentery
methods of preventing and controlling outbreaks of dysentery.
Health education talks on a wide range of subjects are organised at welfare centres Talks
by the centre superintendents and health visitors and, in addition to the planned programmes,
every opportunity is taken for an informal talk and discussion. Day and
evening talks are also given by medical and nursing staff to school children, students and
to voluntary and other organisations.
The following tables analyse talks given during 1958 in eight of the nine health
divisions, but do not include some 3,000 talks given in schools to school girls on
personal hygiene and mothercraft. In the remaining division a similar programme was
followed, but no figures are available. Talks have varied from the short and relatively
informal approach to quite a small audience to the more formal address to a larger
gathering. Visual presentation of all kinds has been used by speakers.