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In-Service Training and Use of Health Education Centre.
A short two session in-service course on "Teaching Hygiene and Use
of Visual Aids Available" was given for the staff of Barking Training
Centre during the first half of the year at the Health Education Centre
at Gale Street. Other in-service courses have unfortunately had to be
curtailed, as have visits to the Centre by various schools, owing to
the continuous vandalism since the demolition of the surrounding prefabs.
Home Safety.
Continued support was given to the work of the Greater London Home
Safety Council, a representative being present at the meetings and also
at the National Home Safety Conference of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents. The topic is of course included in school health
education programmes, and the Health Education Officer was asked to judge
the home safety oral examination for the Girls Brigade and to present the
Club Trophy to the winning team in April.
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
Eleven separate oral examinations at various levels of Home Safety
were held in the Borough during the year and the Health Education Officer
was very proud and had great pleasure in accepting the invitation sent to
her, to be present at Cambell Youth Club, when H.R.H. Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh, visited last November.
Visitors.
Visitors to the Section included two Midwifery Tutor Students, and a
student from London University, Institute of Education, who was taking
the Content and Methods of Health Education Diploma Course, for two weeks
field instruction.
Films and Film Making.
The film on the "Dental Auxiliary" was completed in July, the actual
photography being carried out by the Photographic Department of the then
Regional College.
The demand for films for use in schools, clinics, clubs and organisations
etc., increased during this year, and one film in particular had to be
renewed. In all 222 films were lent by the section and it is envisaged that
this demand will go on increasing during 1971.
Displays and Exhibitions.
The theme of the Health Department's exhibition at the Town Show this
year was on one aspect of Water Safety. Once again the weather was good
and the exhibition was well attended.
The staffs of both Barking and Rush Green Hospitals invited the
Department to provide displays in the foyers of both Maternity Wings; the
topics so far displayed have been "Protection against Burns and Scalds",
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