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The Ministry of Health produce a number of posters and pamphlets and provide
these free of charge to local authorities. This is most helpful and greatly appreciated.
Many voluntary societies also produce attractive publicity material for which a
charge is made.
Exhibition and Displays
The visit to the Borough of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Mobile Exhibition on House Improvement Grants on various sites in the Borough,
as well as the Enfield Show, gave further opportunities for co-operation in health
education, as did the Edmonton Welfare Association's Handicraft Exhibition, at
which was organised a poster and leaflet display in addition to the showing of a
film on Home Safety on seventeen occasions over the three days of the exhibition.
Films and Filmstrips
These, the most popular forms of visual aids, have been widely employed in
helping to present effectively and entertainingly the message of health. The accolade
for the film of the year should probably be awarded to the film "To Janet a Son?"
Smoking and Health
Special emphasis on the casual relationship between smoking and ill-health,
particularly lung cancer, has been a feature of the health education programme for
the year.
Although the accent has rightly been directed to preventing young persons
taking up the habit, a special effort in the form of a Smokers' Clinic has been made
to persuade smokers to give it up.
The work of the Smokers' Clinic is described on page 32.
Relaxation and Mothercraft
Relaxation and mothercraft classes, which are in effect a facet of health
education, are described under the section on the Care of Mothers and Young
Children on page 10.
Geriatric Clinics
The work done at these Clinics, which is also described elsewhere on page 32,
is primarily concerned with health education.
Vaccination and Immunisation
Particularly conscious of the necessity to keep at a high level immunity in
children to the diseases for which active immunisation is available, a publicity
campaign was run during the year.
Supportive Publicity
The visits of the Mass Radiography Unit and the National Blood Transfusion
Service gave opportunities for co-operation in publicity and other ways.
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