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- success, the immediate effect (whether lasting or not) can be
judged by the following letter which is one of many received from
pupils in various schools:"Dear
Mr. Gowers,
We all found your talk most interesting. One of our
members of staff has given up smoking for three weeks now.
I think it has given us time to think before we do start
smoking. We found the film most interesting to all of us.
Yours sincerely,
Lorraine Dewing"
Apart from these regular programmes, the Health Education Section
has given talks, including film shows, to local organisations on a
wide variety of subjects and has arranged series of other talks
and film shows in schools for senior pupils. Nursing Officers,
Health Visitors and Public Health Inspectors have co-operated
with the Health Education Staff in these programmes.
The Chief Public Health Inspector and other members of his staff
have organised a series of lectures and courses on food hygiene
for employees in the food trades, and In-service Training has also
been undertaken on a regularbasis for various sections of the staff.
Health Visitors, in the normal course of their duties, also undertake
Health Education on a person to person basis both at the
clinics and in the course of their visits. Similarly, Public Health
Inspectors and other members of the staff whose duties bring them
into contact with members of the public, have the opportunity of
giving advice to individuals on matters concerned with health and
hygiene.
Home Safety:
Many organisations and schools have also requested talks and
film shows on Home Safety. Under the auspices of the Havering
Home Safety Panel, the Home Safety Quiz was again organised
with teams from secondary schools in the Borough competing for
the Teskey Trophy. This year an innovation was made in that the
final included a practical course where the teams had to demonstrate
how they would deal with persons injured in a simulated
home accident. The 1971 finalists were Romford County High
School for Girls and Harrowfield School, with the former winning
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