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Health Education
For the public health officer this means getting among the
people and giving them a broad background knowledge of the public
health services. It means also teaching them the whys and wherefores
of the rules and regulations local authorities must operate to
keep health offenders from harming the public.
The man-in-the-street is for ever being lectured in his home by
television speakers. He is also being encouraged to seek better health
by spending his money on all sorts of concoctions by the " commercials."
It is relaxing and comforting after such mental bombardment
to learn from the sober public health officer the simple rules for
a good healthy life, including his duty to his neighbours.
Your officers have continued to offer their expert advice to
groups, societies and schools whenever an opportunity to do so is
given
Most of the old pestilences have disappeared.
We have entered a new epoch with immunization, insecticides
and new sanitary measures.
It is necessary for public opinion to be kept in step. We must
arouse interest enthusiastic interest if possible—in what the Town
Hall is doing in the health field.
SUPERVISION OF FOOD SUPPLIES
The changes in the methods of distribution, retailing and packaging
of the nations food supplies are so many and frequent that any
comment must refer to conditions today and tomorrow, so to speak.
Our aim is to achieve the ideal of delivering a satisfactory product
from producer to consumer without contact with the hands.
It is our duty to consider carefully the use of new methods and
materials with this target in mind and encourage retailers in their
efforts.
In the interests of the public we serve we can do no less.
With bulk purchasing, bulk packaging and rationalised distribution
we are approaching the point of uniform standards in all phases
of food supplies to meet the demands of public opinion upon whom
" commercials" are such persistent salesmen.
The catering service continues to call for close supervision and
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