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It is interesting to record that three quarters of all doctors have
given up smoking.
From 1956 to 1960, the cigarette manufacturers spent £38 m. on
advertising while the Government spent only £5,000 on anti-smoking propaganda.
It is impossible at this stage to forecast the long term success of the
unit's visit to Edmonton. Nonetheless the interest shown by staff and scholars
alike gives some indication that the speakers made a tremendous impact on all
who heard them.
Four schools have not been visited and Doctor Jackson subsequently paid
very successful visits to them on his own. In 1963 a Smokers' Clinic was
started in Edmonton and a number of our first clients had, we found, been sent
by their children as a result of the talks in the schools.
EDMONTON WELFARE ASSOCIATION AND THE CARE OF OLD PEOPLE
Laundry Service
This is carried out by the Borough Council as a disinfection Service. It
is a Laundry Service for incontinent persons, and the majority of these patients
are elderly. Collection and delivery are weekly or twice-weekly as required by
the patient, and during 1962 6,477 articles were laundered. Twenty-two people
were catered for at one time or another during 1962.
Edmonton Welfare Association.
The highlight of the Welfare Association's year was undoubtedly the move
into Hollywood House in September 1962. The Borough Architect's staff made a
remarkable job in transforming a rather utilitarian army type hut used by the
Middlesex County Council for minor ailment clinics and consultant clinics into
a very pleasant community centre for old people. The Work Centre was in the end
replaced by a handicraft class which fulfilled the same purpose and the retirement
clinic still awaits the benison of the Middlesex Local Medical Committee.
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In reviewing the work of the Association for the past year, there is constant
evidence of the increased need of our services, and in paying its tribute
to the magnificent work of the voluntary organisations, and in point of fact
all the organisations affiliated to the Associations, we are sensible of the
obvious truth that, without their co-operation and happy team work, which has
been the symbol of our success, many of the present services would be seriously
curtailed or cease to function.
We have to report that the Association, and its method of working under a
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