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Health Education
The promotion of Health Education is one of the duties placed
on Local Health Authorities under the provisions of the National
Health Service Act, 1946. One of the most valuable forms of such
education is in the form of routine advice given by doctors, dentists,
health visitors and sanitary inspectors. I have always contended
that the ideal form of health education is the efficient administration
of the public health services, where members of the public learn
from official practice rather than by precept. The Health Department,
the department primarily responsible for Health Education,
should be a model of cleanliness, where members of the general
public can see in actual operation what they have been taught to
expect with regard to such elementary hygienic amenities as
effective heating, ventilation and environmental cleanliness.
On the following page will be found a list of some of the forms
of health publicity undertaken during the year. When compared
with the list of the previous year, there was a substantial fall in
the attendance of the public at these special meetings.