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Food Hygiene Education
Rush Green College was again the main centre of activity in this field,
courses for both the Certificate and the Diploma in General Food Hygiene being
organised in conjunction with the College staff. These were quite well
attended and very satisfactory results were obtained in the examinations.
At the request of the Medical Department of Messrs. Fords, three short
courses on food handling were given to the canteen staffs in the Engines
Division. This was the first occasion on which we have been able to co-operate
in this field, and we hope that it will be the fore-runner of other courses in
the future.
One talk for trainee manageresses in a large multiple bakers and another
for school meals supervisors were also arranged.
Home Safety
The quarterly home safety bulletins inaugurated in 1966 were continued and
some requests were received for additional copies. We were representated at
the regular meetings of the London Home Safety Council, but pressure of other
duties precluded attendance at the annual RoSPA National Home Safety Conference.
The majority of the home safety training is done in schools where every
programme contains this topic, but a considerable amount of home safety
teaching is carried out in the clinics by health visitors in the course of
their day-to-day work.
Training of Students
In January a chief public health inspector from the Sudan was attached to
the section for two months' continuous practical training. He was followed in
March by two Nigerian students attending the Health Education Diploma Course at
London University. Another chief public health inspector from Barbados arrived
in September for three weeks.
It is always interesting to meet overseas students and to learn of their
problems which, in spite of so many differences of climate and environment,
are very often closely related to ours.
In addition to the visitors from overseas, talks were given to student
nurses from Rush Green Hospital and student health visitors from the Barking
Regional College.
Visitors
The health education section also attracts its share of visitors, 2k of
whom called during the year. Their places of origin varied from Turkey to
Kingston-on-Thames and included a group of six Rotarians from Le Havre who
were attending a meeting of the Dagenham Rotary Club.
Youth
The adolescent clinic at Porters Avenue continued during 1967, the main
health education activity being the production of a filmstrip and 16 mm film on
teenage behaviour. Apart from this, films and other visual aids were provided
for the clinic staff in their talks.
Examinations in home safety for young people undertaking the Duke of
Edinburgh Award Scheme were continued, a high standard of work generally being
produced.
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