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(6) It is hoped that a Wood Green Public Health Services
Handbook will be ready for issue during 1953. This
handbook supplies information relating to the health
services and will, it is hoped, be of interest and assistance
to local residents.
It will scarcely be necessary for me to say that Health
Education is playing a more and more important part in preventive
medicine as we know it to-day. Our aim is to make available to
the general public information which can be used to advantage.
Our programme must therefore be continuous. In addition to a
continuous, long-term programme, occasional stimuli can be superimposed.
Thus, as noted elsewhere in this report, we are planning
to hold a Clean Food Month during 1953. Our yearly campaign
for immunisation against diphtheria comes under the same heading.
The Council will be aware that health education is a function
which is shared by the Borough Council and by the County Council
in a Borough such as Wood Green. The staff of the Public
Health Department and of the Area Health Office both undertake
the work ; each supplements and assists the other. This is one
example of the importance of team-work in health.
In conclusion, I look forward to extending the work of health
education in Wood Green, as I am convinced that health education,
health propaganda, call it what you will, is one of the most powerful
weapons placed in our hands. I hope to be able to submit a
comprehensive report to the Public Health Committee on this
subject when the needs of the district have been more accurately
assessed.
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