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Coloma Teachers' Training College
One group of Second-year Students
One group of mature Students
Lambeth Health Department
One group of Health Visitors and in addition Health Visitors and
Health Education Officers visited from other London Boroughs and
as far away as Coventry. Programmes were also arranged for two
W.H.O. Fellows visiting the Health Department.
When not in use the Lecture Room was loaned to other departments
for showing films during in-service training sessions.
Home Safety
Once again two thirty-foot marquees were taken at the Ashburton Flower
Show. One of these was devoted entirely to Home Safety and Health Education
and the other to Dental Health Education. The Home Safety activities
involved the participation of the public as much as possible and a large
number of people visited the tent during the course of the afternoon.
A new venture this year was to set up a Home Safety Exhibition in the
Health Education Lecture Room and Work Room. A group of Student District
Nurses visited the section and had talks and discussions on the topics
shown in the room. As an experiment groups of children from the Parish
Church Primary School were also brought into the Department. Individual
groups took an interest in individual exhibits and a talk and film were
shown to conclude the session. This unusual form of work was interesting
to the children and stimulating to the Staff. A group of girls from Lanfranc
Secondary Girls School also visited the Exhibition as part of a series of
talks given in the Community Health Course. Having undertaken these one
or two experiments, we hope very much to use the Health Education Lecture
Room more often as an experimental classroom.
The Health Education Staff worked very hard during this rather difficult
year and are particularly grateful for all the help they received from members
of the administrative staff and other sections of the Health Department.
Without their kindness and goodwill in helping to sort out the vast amount of
equipment and the early difficulties encountered on first reaching Taberner
House, it would have been difficult to have undertaken so much work during
the year.
For details see Appendix page 115.