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A van containing unsound food when on the way to South Harrow
was stopped in South London. The food was being brought into the
Borough to be prepared for feeding greyhounds. It appears that the
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food had drafted regulations
about the staining and sterilization of unsound meat, but these are still
under consideration. The Association of Municipal Corporations are in
touch with the Ministry on the matter.
Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations, 1957. Section 7 of the
1955 Regulations restricted the giving out of food for preparation or
packing in domestic premises. The 1957 Regulations removed this
restriction in regard to shrimps, prawns and onions. These Amendment
Regulations which came into force on the 31st December, 1957 provided
that as from 1st June, 1958, the prohibition will apply to the preparation
of shrimps, prawns and onions unless the outworkers premises are
registered with the local authority, under Section 16 of the Food and
Drugs Act, 1955 for the preparation of the food and certain other
requirements are complied with.
Health Education. This work which started as the educational
side of the Clean Food Campaign has steadily developed each year and
Mr. E. G. Montford, one of the Public Health Inspectors, who is especially
concerned with the subject, devotes almost the whole of his time to it. The
public is approached in different ways. Talks, many of them with the
exhibition of film strips, are given to audiences at schools and local
associations. Thirty-seven talks on environmental health or food hygiene
were given during the year, and twenty-one talks on home safety were
given, mostly to audiences at the clinics.
A lot of material of different sorts has been collected in the Public
Health office which is suitable for showing to audiences. Nineteen
parties of student health visitors, overseas health students, local traders,
etc. have attended demonstrations.
As is now customary, the Public Health department has a large
exhibit at Kodak Hall for the week-end the Delegate Conference is held.
Similar exhibits have been shown at the clinics and branch libraries,
totalling 109. These reach large numbers of people.
The Harrow Observer is very generous in its support of the Council >
efforts on health education and hardly a week passes without their
including some notes on this subject.
Other ways of reaching the public are the posters displayed at clinics
libraries and schools and outside notice boards. Some 500 were exhibted
last year. In addition, the Public Health Committee sponsored a health
education brochure authorising the printing of 5,000 copies. These give
those interested an account of the health education programme of the
Public Health Committee and tell readers whom to approach if they
want lecturers, etc.
Film strips are shown at many of these talks and additions are constantly
being made to the already large library, with a result that there is
now a very large number from which to select slides appropriate to the
lecture and to the audience.