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education. To assist the teachers in their work they have been
supplied with copies of the “ Handbook of Suggestions on Health
Education” issued by the Board of Education, with copies of
the “ Health and Cleanliness, a Text Book for Teachers” and
various posters and other publications of the Health and Cleanliness
Council.
The excellent booklets of the Health and Cleanliness Council,
“ Keep Fit” for boys, and “ Health for Beauty” for girls, are
issued to those about to leave school.
To the mothers attending the Health Centres are distributed
copies of the booklet, “ The Care of the Mother and the Child”
which is so full of valuable information for the mother regarding
her own and her children’s health.
The general public are approached by means of the monthly
periodical called “ Better Health” in which are given informative
articles on all subjects relating to general and personal health.
In this publication there is an entire absence of stunt-mongering
and fad-pushing so that the reader can depend on information
which is of undoubted authority.
In discussing the question of health education one must also
mention the assistance of the local press which by its sympathetic
and intelligent discussion of local health matters or developments
is continually focussing the interest of the public upon matters ,
relating to health.
Lastly may be mentioned the issue of a booklet on the “ Health
Services of the Borough ” in which is contained an account of all
the health activities of the Council, a description being given of
the health department generally, of the Health Centres, the
Hospitals, and the various services available for the public.
By all these means a very real interest is being stimulated
in the measures which are adopted to preserve the health of the
public generally and in the steps which the public themselves
can take to protect their own health.
THOMAS ORR, M.D., D.Sc.
June 2nd, 1931.