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Ten small exhibits on the relative theme were shown
each month in establishments throughout the borough.
Audio-visual aids used totalled 1,075.
These included films, slides, posters, pamphlets,
flannelgraphs and other pieces of demonstration material.
Health education was carried out by all members of the
community health team, i.e. medical officers, health visitors,
home nurses and midwives, public health inspectors and others
engaged in public health work. Much of the work carried out in
schools was planned with the assistance of the school teachers.
Smoking Advisory Courses
Two smoking advisory courses were held during the year:
the first in March - April and the second in November - December.
Twenty-seven registered for the first course and eighteen for the
second. The attendances dwindled to eight and five respectively
for the last sessions.
The success rate was just over 50 per cent on both courses.
Some of those who discontinued attending before the end of the course
had been able to give up smoking quite quickly but a very small
minority on each count found it impossible to discontinue smoking or
to reduce consumption. Several heavy smokers who could not give it
up altogether reduced to five per day and have been able to keep to
that number. Others switched to pipe smoking.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948. SECTION 47
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 1951
Action can be taken under these Acts for compulsory removal
of persons to suitable premises in circumstances where they are:
(a) suffering from grave chronic disease, or being
aged, infirm or physically incapacitated, are
living in insanitary conditions.
(b) unable to look after themselves and are not
receiving proper oare and attention from other
persons.
It is emphasised that removal of a person to an institution
for the reasons stated above is only undertaken with great reluctance.
No one was removed under this Section during 1972.