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HOME SAFETY
With the object of enlisting and stimulating the interest of local organisations in
the work of home safety, the Home Safety Advisory Committee (under the auspices of
the Public Health Committee) has continued to function.
It has been difficult to produce in the Borough any real enthusiasm for the work of
the Committee and this may well be due, in part at least, to the difficulties encountered
in finding ways and means of financing the work of the Committee. The Council cannot,
under the existing legislation, make any financial contribution to the Advisory Committee
until it has some funds of its own; the problem of how to obtain money from local
organisations, in addition to the active co-operation of their members, before the Council
make any contribution has not yet been solved.
A local programme was arranged in the autumn in connection with the " Check
that Fall" campaign. In addition to lectures to local organisations, slides were shown
at local cinemas and display stands were erected in the foyer of two cinemas, a public
library and two clinics. A questionnaire on falls compiled by the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents was distributed to old people through some of the local organisations;
the replies are awaited.
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