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46.
PUBLIC HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
During the year Public Health propaganda was continued and extended.
Five new Public Health notice boards were provided and fixed in positions
on Council Estates. Public Health information posters are posted on the
notice boards and during the year are changed several times. The Public
Health Department also have a large notice board situated in the Town
Hall and an E. M. B. board at St, John's churchyard, where propaganda
posters are posted and changed regularly.
In addition to this method of propaganda Public Health propaganda
leaflets and book marks are distributed from the Public Libraries by
arrangement with the Borough Librarian. From time to time circular
letters are sent to various traders such as shopkeepers, stallholders,
and in particular a special circular letter was sent out to all bakers
advising them on methods of cleaning their utensils and apparatus.
Talks were also given to mothers by the Deputy Chief Sanitary
Inspector at the Model Welfare Centre, Kingsland Road and a visit was
paid to the Town Hall by scholars of school leaving age from one of
the local schools, who were shown over the Department by the Chief
Sanitary Inspector and given an insight into the working of the Public
Health Department.
In the campaign against tuberculosis "Do Not Spit" notices were
issued on request to replace posters already distributed.
Sonne dysentery gave us an opportunity of spreading the gospel of
personal cleanliness through interviews by the sanitary inspectors,
and, by the distribution to each affected household of our own leaflets
on food handling - especially the abbreviated one which summarises
under five distinct headings. The longer leaflet has been posted up,
as well as distributed, in all premises where food-handlers work.
We were also given an opportunity of boosting diphtheria
immunisation by the occurrence (after a 5 year lapse) of a case of
diphtheria where the germ was brought home by a carrier. With the
help of the "Hackney Gazette" and of the Council's monthly "Newsletter",
the local immunisation clinics had temporarily quite a rush of
applicants.
STUDENT SANITARY INSPECTORS.
In 1946, the Borough Council, through the Public Health Committee,
commenced a scheme for the training of potential Sanitary Inspectors
and since then we have taken a maximum number of three student Sanitary
Inspectors for each course.