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Health Education
The case of success in public health lies in the community itself
participating in every public health activity.
The need for health education remains one of the most important
matters in the field of public health administration. With the impact
of the Food Hygiene Regulations which came into operation on the
first day of the. year there was offered an excellent opportunity, which
your officer accepted, to link the practical application of the requirements
of the law with the lessons to be learnt from the disregard of
the basic principles of personal hygiene.
Talks have been given to school children, housewives and other
associations an endeavour to satisfy the demand for more information
from numbers of the public, food purveyors and housewives
interested in case subjects.
Not lestion importance in the approach to health education is the
public health inspector during his routine visits to the homes of the
people, the food preparing premises, the factory and workplace, in the
cause of proring greater interest and understanding of the problems
allied with the matter.
New Legislation
Housing bsidies Act 1956.
Clean Act, 1956.
Slum Cleance (Compensation) Act, 1956.
Sanitary inspectors (Change of Designation) Act, 1956.
Statutory instruments
No. 89 Prevention of Damage by Pests (Application to
Shipping) (Amendment) Order, 1956.
No. 101 Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected and Controlled
Areas Restriction) (Amendment) Order, 1956.
No. 57 Rent Restrictions Regulations, 1956.
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