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the Oral Hygiene Service also gave her assistance in the campaign to which
the dental industry and fruit producers council contributed handouts to
add impact to the campaign.
The playlet on dental health produced by Roxeth Manor Junior
School was considered so good by the dental profession that it was
reproduced in its entirity in the technical magazine "Dental Health", and
is to be published in a similar journal in America.
Special courses were arranged for two local grammar schools, one as
part of a human biology class for pre-nursing students, and one, a new
course, on social biology and community health for a sixth form biology
class, to which all sections of the department contributed.
Practical visits to make such courses alive can be and were arranged,
to which nursing students were also invited.
Nursing students and social workers were frequent visitors to the
Department where they receive an insight into the personal, community,
and environmental health services as part of their training and student
teachers were often given information and material to assist in the
preparation of their thesis if this dealt with health education.
In view of the public's change in attitude to Clean Air, which now is
not "why are we going clean air?" but "when are we going clean air?", it
was decided not to hold a Clean Air week but advance publicity was
featured in those areas which were about to become smoke-controlled.
Expectant mothers and parents of young children are the target of
much health education by the health visitors who carry out a continual
programme of health education in the clinics, both in theory and practice.
The sixteen film evenings on child birth and infant care and development
were usually well supported. The film on child birth, "To Janet— A
Son?", is ever popular and the husbands who are invited to attend with
their wives often contribute much to the discussions which follow the films.
One object of such films is to install confidence in the expectant mother
and it is rarely that any express regret at having previewed their forthcoming
experience.
Many talks were given on request to local organisations of all kinds
on every aspect of the department's work. These are usually undertaken
by senior officers, often in their own time in the case of evening talks—the
audiences ranging from young cubs and youth clubs to women's organisations
and pensioners clubs.
The Borough was represented by Councillor Low and Mr. Anderton
on the Greater London Home Safety Council at their quarterly meetings.
This is a very active Committee and many recommendations are referred
for consideration by the National Home Safety Council of R.O.S.P.A.
The year 1968 saw the formation of the new Health Education Council
which represents the amalgamation of the old Central Council for Health
Education and that section of the Ministry of Health which previously
dealt with health education promotional functions.