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was asked to undertake, on a part-time basis, the duties of coordinating
the Health Education.
A full range of Health Education aids, including a film projector,
have been obtained, and a series of talks has been arranged
in the schools which have continued throughout the year.
Emphasis has been placed on the dangers of smoking in a whole
series of these talks, coupled with the showing of films on the
subject, in addition to a syllabus of nine talks covering the health
servies, personal health, cleanliness, nutrition, etc.
Lectures and talks have also been arranged for local organisations
on many subjects connected with the Health Service.
Health Visitors, Nurses, Public Health Inspectors and other
members of the staff have co-operated in giving the various talks.
A programme for the display of posters on a particular Health
subject each month has also been inaugurated. These have been
displayed in Clinics, and on public notice boards throughout the
Area.
Statistics relating to talks, etc., given by members of the Area
Health Staff, are as follows:—
Total Attendances
100 talks given in schools to school children 3,142
25 film sessions given in schools to school
children 2,256
18 talks given to girls in connection with the
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme 720
Seven talks were also given to outside organisations, in addition
to those given by the Public Health Inspectors as mentioned elsewhere
in this Report.
Vaccination and Immunisation
Smallpox Vaccination. Comparison of figures for the year
l962 and 1963 relating to Vaccination against Smallpox produces no
real guide as to whether the numbers being vaccinated are being
maintained. The inflated figures for 1962 resulting from the incidence
of Smallpox in this country, have no doubt reduced the
number of vaccinations which would normally have been performed
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