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HEALTH EDUCATION
Once more I have to report a busy year as far as health education was concerned,
although it has not yet been possible to give organised courses in health education as I
said last year.
It is very important that we should make health education our subject and not
disease education. Occasionally we find that we have to educate in disease but we must
be careful that we are not carried away by our enthusiasm and allow ourselves to be
side-tracked into too much discussion about disease. The promotion and maintenance
of health must remain our aims.
Each member of the staff is encouraged to engage in health education as an integral
part of his or her daily work. The Council agreed to the appointment of an additional
public health inspector whose main duties would be to organise and develop health
education in the Borough.
The following is the diary of talks given to local organisations during the year:—
Date Organisation Subject of Talk
January Woodlands Club Old Age
February Midwives The Air We Breathe
March Inner Wheel The Food We Eat
„ Rectory Road Library Discussion Group The Air We Breathe
„ John Perry School Parent Teachers' Smoking and Cancer
Association
April Romford Social Workers' Luncheon Group Old Age
„ Gale St. Women's Co-op Guild Home Accidents
May Old Dagenham Methodist Church Sisterhood The Food We Eat
„ Royal College of Midwives, Dagenham, Health Education and Gadgets
Romford & Forest Area Branch
„ Fanshawe Women's Section Labour Party The Food We Eat
June Rectory Road Library Women's Meeting Accidents in the Home
July Labour Party (Fanshawe Ward) Women's The Air We Breathe
Section
„ Women's Co-op Guild, Broad Street Accidents in the Home
„ "The Over Twenties" Central Hall Old Age
September Old People's Welfare Committee Preparation for Retirement
October Dockland Settlement, Heathway Women's Accidents in the Home
Section
November Chadwell Heath Townswomen's Guild „ ,, „ „
„ Chadwell Heath Old People (Cecil Road) „ „ „ „
„ Avenue Social Club, Old People „ „ „ „
„ Chadwell Heath Old People (St. Chad's Hall) „ „ „ „
„ Dockland Settlement, Old People „ ,, „ „
„ Kingsley Hall, Old People „ „ „ „
„ Pathfinders—Co-op Hall, „ „ „ „
Becontree Avenue (Youth)
„ British Legion, Rectory Road, (Women's Section) „ ,, „ ,,
,, Marlyon Road, Old People „ „ „ „
„ Padnall Road, Old People „ „ „ „
„ Chadwell Heath Ratepayers' Association „ „ ,, „
„ Fanshawe Ward Labour Party (Women's Section) „ „ „ „
„ Y.W.C.A. Married Group „ „ „ „
„ Broad Street, Old People „ „ „ „
December Inner Wheel—Valence House „ „ „ „
„ Women's Voluntary Service „ „ „ „
„ British Legion, Becontree Avenue, ,, ,, „ „
(Women's Section)
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