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Smoking and Lung cancer Campaign.
Illustrated talks to Secondary School children about the
risks of smoking have continued and are discussed in the School
Section of the report on page 6. During 1960 we hope to encourage
health visitors to introduce this subject at Infant Welfare
Centres. A great many mothers smoke now and are thus
setting the example to children from their earliest days.
Exhibitions and Displays.
We are constantly trying to improve the standard of this
work. In March, help was given to the Public Health Inspectors
in the preparation of charts and exhibits for their stand in
their Clean Air Exhibition.
Twelve individual displays were exhibited at the Voluntary
Workers Reception at the Town Hall also in March. These were
examples of material suitable for Infant Welfare Centres.
Assistance was given with Home Safety Displays at the Rex
and Savoy Cinemas and on one occasion for the Sutton and Cheam
Borough Council. Help was also given in the designing and construction
of the Home Safety exhibits for the summer Flower Show
in Ashburton Park. These were made so that they could be used
again in Infant Welfare Centres and schools.
This year our forty-foot stand in the "Welcome to Citizenship"
Exhibition was completely re-arranged. Permission was
given to have official photographs taken of activities in all
sections of the department and the willing co-operation of the
staff, patients and school staffs was very much appreciated over
this. The photographs were colourfully mounted and the display
enlivened with three-dimensional and mechanical devices. Among
the many visitors to the Exhibition was a party of Health Education
students from the London University Institute of Education,
many of whom came from abroad and were interested in
English Local Administration.
Other Activities:-
Film and filmstrip shows were held in the Lecture Room in
January, May and December to which doctors, health visitors,
district nurses and midwives were invited. In May the film
"Growing Old" was shown twice and staff from Welfare Services
were also invited; so great was the interest in this that there
was standing room only.