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(e) Literature.
Health literature is available and is distributed through Maternity
and Child Welfare Centres and the Public Health Department.
A special display stand is used for this purpose in the general office
of the Public Health Department.
(/) Public Health Handbook.
Messrs. Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd. have issued three
editions of the Southgate Public Health Handbook, setting out the
health services available to the inhabitants of the Borough. The
firm has recently written intimating that they are prepared to
consider the preparation of a fourth edition. A reply was sent
accepting this offer, but pointing out that it would appear wise to
wait until after July 5th, 1948, or at least until the present situation
is more fully clarified. The new edition of the Public Health Handbook,
while issued by the Public Health Department of the Southgate
Borough Council, will list the health facilities available to the
burgesses and will give due consideration to the part played by the
Area Health Committee, the Middlesex County Council and other
responsible bodies.
The appearance of such a handbook as soon after July 5th as
possible should serve a particularly useful purpose in acquainting the
general public with the new regime and the extended facilities which
have been made available.
(g) Information Room.
I should very much like to see the establishment of an Information
Room within the Borough. The setting up of such an Information
Room could either be the responsibility of the Borough Council,
of the Area Health Committee, or of both working in conjunction.
It would be used for the purpose of displaying Health Literature,
supplying information relating to local health services, and staging
exhibits dealing with one particular aspect of preventive medicine.
This latter exhibit would be changed at regular intervals. Lack of
accommodation in the Public Health Department or in any centrally
situated premises has so far prevented the setting up of an Information
Room, but the situation is still being explored, in the hope that
suitable accommodation can be obtained. There is no doubt that an
attractive Information Room could be put to excellent use, and I
am of opinion that this method of health education has not yet been
fully exploited.
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