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Smoking and health in view of its importance and topicality also
provided a subject of more than passing interest. A mobile unit sponsored
by the Central Council for Health Education attended this district
from the 25th to the 29th March. It was staffed by two qualified lecturers
and in co-operation with Dr. Pearce, the Divisional School
Medical Officer, attended a representative number of Hornchurch
schools. The programme of this unit was also greatly facilitated by
arrangements made through Mr. Glyn Richards, the Public Relations
Officer. Although it is difficult to evaluate the success attending a venture
of this kind, I think that good grounds exist for believing it to have
been successful. 1 consider also that the lecturers appointed by the
Central Council for Health Education were exceedingly competent in the
carrying out of what was after all quite a difficult and somewhat unusual
task.
My thanks are once again due to Mr. Glyn Richards for his assistance
in giving the fullest publicity to items of a Public Health nature
British Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled.
I attended a three day course in Cardiff under the auspices of this
Council, and found the course exceedingly rewarding.
Laboratory Facilities.
The arrangements remain the same as last year.
Dr. E. A. Atkinson, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, kindly deal;
with a variety of other bacteriological and occasionally pathological
material, whilst the laboratories at both Rush Green and Harold Wood
Hospitals respond willingly to any calls made upon them.
Ambulance Service.
The arrangements remain the same as last year.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
The Essex County Council maintained clinics at the following
centres throughout the year:-
(i) Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch.
(ii) Athelstan Road, Harold Wood.
(iii) Avon Road, Upminster.
(iv) Hornchurch Road, Hornchurch.
(v) Nelmes Road, Hornchurch.
(vi) St. Mary's Lane, Upminster.
(vii) South End Road, South Hornchurch.
(viii) Suttons Hostel, Suttons Lane, Hornchurch.
(ix) Upminster Road, Rainham.
(x) Westland Avenue, Hornchurch.
Nursing Homes.
The two registered Nursing Homes in the district are supervised by
the County Council.