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HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
Clean Food Campaign.
The main feature of health propaganda during the year
took the form of a Clean Food Campaign, which was held in
the Borough for a week in Kay. The campaign was an outdoor
one, past, experience having shown that health exhibitions
and leatures held indoors are not well attended by the public.
The exhibition unit comprised 3 vans,- ohe being used as
a mobile cinema, the second as an information stall and the
third as a model mobile food kiosk. The unit visited' all the
street markets of. the Borough, where speakers held question
and answer sessions. A recorded talk by the Medical Officer
of Health was relayed and films on food hygiene were shown.
For two weeks prior to the campaign advertisements of the
programme and time-table of the exhibition appeared in the
local press, on posters and on .leaflets.
I desire to express my thanks to local firms, police and
various government bodies for their assistance in making the
campaign a success. It achieved its object of conveying
information to approximately 6,000 members of the public,
including a large number of food traders.
Two of the films shown by the mobile cinema van were
subsequently shown by four of the local cinemas.
A report on the campaign is reproduced in full on pages
60-64.
Metropolitan Boroughs'Golden Jubilee Exhibition.
The Public Health Department took part in an exhibition
organised in connection with the Metropolitan Boroughs Golden
Jubilee Celebrations and which was held at the Limehouse Town
Hall during November. The theme of the exhibition dealt with
50 years of progress, and the Department's exhibits portrayed
the last half century's improvements in the mortality rates,
particularly of infants, and the efforts that have been made
by legislation and otherwise to combat disease, increase expectation
of life, improve sanitation, and reduce sophistication
of food.
Venereal Disease.
In compliance with the Ministry of .Health Circular of
8th May, 1950, a publicity campaign comprising poster display
and leaflet distribution on the subject of venereal diseases
was carried out.
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