Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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A visit was made to the District Nurses Association to
demonstrate the filmstrip projector to the tutors; the filmstrip
on 'Lifting Patients" was shown to the Matron of the Welfare
Services Hostels for old people and later she showed it to all
her staff. Much time was also spent in preparing visual material
for the Ante-Natal Clinic. The number of illustrated
talks to other organisations by many members of the department
increased during the year and we have added a daylight screen
and tape-recorder to our equipment.
More students of all kinds visited the health education
section and two health education students from London University
Institute of Education carried out their practical work here one
day a week for six months. Health Education in senior schools
continued and is described in the School Section of the report
on page 5.
So gradually a new enthusiasm for health education is being
created but in the words of Benjamin D. Paul " To teach,
the health educator must be able to learn".