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HEALTH EDUCATION
FILM PROGRAMMES AND INFORMAL TALKS
Once again a full programme was carried out by the Council's
Health Education Unit during the year.
Eighty-two programmes were given to local organisations in their
own meeting plaecs in the Spring,Autumn and Winter months.
Fifteen visits were made to religious groups, 13 to old people's
associations, 27 to political bodies and 27 to other various types of
clubs. Fifty sessions were held in the afternoon and 32 in the
evening.
The average audience showed an increase in size on recent years,
but still varied considerably individually from 300 at old people's
clubs to 20 at some others.
The sessions consisted of either films or an informal talk, or
a combination of both,designed to bring out a particular aspect of
health education. Of the eighty-two visits, seventy-four were
devoted exclusively to films, four to talks and four to talks and
films together.
Programmes, as in past years, took the form of 20 to 30
minutes of films devoted to health subjects, followed by films of
general interest or of special interest to the organisation concerned.
Films are carefully selected to appeal to particular types of
audience and this policy evidently bears fruit by the continued
popularity and requests for revisits for this form of Health
Education.
The subject matter of the talks varied as in past years, and
included "The work of the Health Department", "Infectious Disease",
"Old Peopled Welfare", and a subject that is showing an increase in
popularity, partly due to the Council's own activities in that
direction, namely "Clean Air".
Several new organisations were introduced to the Council's
Health Education Services during the year, and second visits were
requested in most cases with surprise being expressed at the
diversity of functions undertaken by the Health Department.
LEAFLETS AND LITERATURE
Leaflets on a variety of subjects are distributed to the
public. Distribution was extended during the year to include
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