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Domestic and Hone Helps.
No. of part-time Helps on the panel 57
" Cases attended: Free 810
Paying 383
" attendances made to them 8296
" visits by the Organiser 210
1 of these related to a confinement.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA continued to receive the attention
of the Public Health Department.
Diphtheria.
In compliance with the Ministry of Health Circular
97/48 a diphtheria immunisation campaign was carried out in
the Borough.
Cinema slides were shown at six local cinemas for
various periods between August and September.
Press advertisements in local newspapers appeared
during August, September and October. In addition an
advertisement appeared in a local Parish magazine during
the whole year.
Immunisation birthday cards were sent to every child
in the Borough on its first birthday.
Literature and Posters.
Over 15,500 leaflets and 750 posters were distributed
to factories, clubs, schools, doctors' surgeries, and
throughout all Borough Council establishments.
Health Danger of Bathing in Thames.
300 posters on this subject were displayed along the
riverside and canal banks.
Vaccination.
250 leaflets giving particulars of facilities for
vaccination against smallpox were distributed.
In addition, various leaflets and posters on the
importance of washing hands before preparing food, advice
on diarrhoea, food poisoning, infantile paralysis, flies,
measles, whooping cough, home and everyday accidents, etc.
were distributed throughout the Borough.
at 30th June 1948.
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