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Continual short training sessions for all kinds of professional
staff are necessary if the general standard of health
education is to be raised and interest in it maintained. Therefore
it was a pleasure to help with this by giving lectures or
acting as a group leader to the following organisations during
the year:-
The British Red cross Society's Training Centre at Barnett Hill.
King Edward's Hospital Fund.
The Royal College of Nursing-Refresher Course at Southampton University.
The central Council for Health Education-Summer school at Bangor.
London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-Health Education Seminar.
Croydon Marriage Guidance Council.
Routine talks to other organisations, lectures to nurses on
the social aspects of disease and the training of students continued
as usual.
Miscellaneous-Health Education in Schools-
(See School Section of the Report - page 6)
An exhibition was prepared for the South Eastern Home Safety
Conference held in the Denning Hall in June and a demonstration
on the making and display of visual aids was given. This was
repeated at the Home Safety Conference held in the Westminster
Hall, London, in November.
Following an outbreak of food poisoning during the summer,
lecture demonstrations were given with the Deputy Chief Public
Health Inspector to food handlers in a large Croydon firm.
Since then efforts have been made by the Public Health Inspector's
Department to do this sort of work in other firms and
factories, but the response has been poor. It is thought that
greater interest may be aroused if the next study day is held
for industrial doctors, nurses, managers and public health inspectors
on "The Principles and Practice of Health Education in
Industry".