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which have been arranged by Mr. Jackaman and members
of the Public Health staff in the kiosk outside the
Town Hall. The subjects covered during 1957 include:
Home Safety, Food Hygiene, Rodent Control, Dental Health.
It is difficult to estimate the impact of
these displays on the general public, but I have
personally no doubt that they are playing quite a
significant part. The same remarks could, indeed,
apply to health education as a whole. The results
are never readily apparent, but the cumulative effect
must surely be worth the very limited sum being
expended on what must be one of the most logical avenues
along which positive health should be approached.
Arrangements have recently been made whereby
the Friern Barnet Social Service Council set up a special
committee dealing with Safety in the Home. The Public
Health Department offered its willing co-operation, this
being a topic in which the Council has always shown a
keen and active interest. The Area Health Office Staff
are also playing their part in this significant work.
Apart from the continuous advice to mothers in connection
with safety in the home, given at our clinics in Friern
Barnet, special arrangements have been completed whereby
health visitors will demonstrate the use of non-inflammable
clothing material, both in our clinics and at Old People's
Clubs in the district. This aspect of home safety has
only recently come into prominence, but is one from
which a great deal of good can be expected.
The work of slum clearance if that indeed, is
the correct expression to use is continuing in Friern
Barnet. Further details will be found in the body
of the Report,
The question of Clean Air belongs more properly
to the Annual Report for 195, as this matter was
considered very carefully by the Public Health Committee
early in that year. Mr. Jackaman, however, has been
most active in taking steps to estimate the amount of
deposition of grit, etc., in various parts of the
district, so that we may be in a better position to
evaluate our needs.
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