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Home Safety.
At a Meeting of the Health Area Sub-Committee held on
16th February, 1953 the Area Clerk submitted a request from the
Leyton Borough Council's Road Safety Committee for consideration
to be given to the desirability of suitable action being taken to deal
with the question of home safety. The Committee resolved that the
matter be left to the discretion of the Chairman, in consultation
with the appropriate Officers, to take any suitable action.
As a result of this I conferred with the Chairman, and with the
co-operation of Miss Charley, Accident Prevention Officer, Crusader
Insurance Company, an exhibition and film show on Home Safety
was held at the Health Services Clinics on the following dates.

Further to this, all mothers and children using the Clinics had
an opportunity of viewing the exhibition, and these numbered
several hundreds. Leaflets dealing with avoidance of scalds and
burns, and the safe use of gas and electricity, were distributed.
A film show dealing with Home Safety was arranged for the parents
of babies attending the Essex County Health Services Clinic,
Dawlish Road on Monday evening, 28th September, 1953 at the
Clinic. Fifty parents were in attendance.
For many years it has been routine practice in this Area for
health visitors to deal with the necessity of efficient fireguards
during their visits to homes, for posters to be exhibited in the clinics,
and for suitable pamphlets to be distributed to expectant and
nursing mothers.
Home Office Circular No. 106/1953.
The Circular—issued in May, 1953—accompanied the Report on
"Accidents in the Home" issued by the Standing Interdepartmental
Committee which had been investigating the problem over a
period of five years.