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of prevention and responsibility to the community could be emphasized.
Some of the subjects were less familiar and it was
suggested that help from the Public Health Department could be
given with these lessons. It was agreed that three lecturedemonstrations
using the material suggested should be given by
the Health Education Officer in the Technical College during
1960. After these three sessions arrangements would be made for
her to visit each school and discuss individual ideas,problems
and requests with the staffs concerned and in future to act as
liaison between them and the health department,keeping them informed
of new data and health education visual aids. By the end
of the year twenty-six complete sets of lecture notes and visual
aids had been prepared for distribution to teachers at the
future meetings.
Smoking and Lung Cancer Campaign.
Illustrated talks to Secondary School children about the
risks of smoking have continued but unfortunately it was not
possible to cover every school. We still believe that education
on this subject is a long term policy and that the facts should
be presented and discussed at least once a year. There has been
no recent evidence to justify changing this decision. Evaluation
is extremely difficult. Some Head Teachers report less smoking
on the school premises,but smoking outside probably still continues
on much the same scale. It is encouraged by tobacconists
selling cigarettes to children under 16 years,by the indifference
of many parents and the increasing number of automatic
machines from which cigarettes may be bought,thus nullifying
laws against selling tobacco to children.
Other Activities.
Not without some trepidation an invitation was accepted in
January to read one of two papers on "Health Education in
Schools" to the Keppel Club at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. The discussion which followed was a most
stimulating and helpful experience. The subject was so wide
that the members decided to carry on with it the following month
and it was a great privilege to be invited again to listen to
the concluding discussion.
In November a lecture-demonstration was given to the
students at Coloma Teachers' Training College. This was an important
piece of work because an effective school health programme
should be based on the accepted place of health in