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Publicity and Propaganda, Etc.
Public lectures to Ratepayers' Associations, Evening Institutes and
Church organisations, etc., on health topics were given during the year.
The Chairman of the Public Health Committee also made reference at a
number of Council meetings to health subjects. Poster displays regarding
Diphtheria immunisation and health topics were also given prominence.
On 24th October a film show featuring Vaccination and Diphtheria
Immunisation was held at the Town Hall.
Accident Prevention in the Home.
The Council agreed to membership of the Home Safety Department
of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the first step in
their programme was the inviting of delegates from numerous local
organisations to attend an inaugural meeting on 18th November, 1952, at
which Mrs. Duncan. Manager of the Home Safety Department of RoSPA,
addressed the meeting on the cause and effect of home accidents, means
of combating them, and the suggestion of the formation of a local Home
Safety Committee under the general guidance of the Public Health Committee.
The Council agreed to the formation of such a Committee, to be
designated the Home Safety Advisory Committee, and invitations were sent
to the 12 delegates present at the inaugural meeting, and also to other
voluntary bodies inviting the sending of a representative to the future
meetings of the Committee to discuss the inauguration of a scheme in
Ilford.
The constitution of the Committee consisted of the Chairman and
Vice-Chairman of the Public Health Committee, who were elected to the
same offices in this Committee, and the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of
the Road Safety Advisory Committee, together with one representative of
each of the organisations who were participating in the scheme, and the
function would be to advise the Public Health Committee and make the
necessary recommendations in regard to the training of people in matters
relating to safety in the home, the training of representatives to undertake
propaganda work within the borough, and the dissemination of propaganda
by means of pamphlets, posters, film shows and other suitable means.
The Council authorised expenditure not exceeding £25 during the
remainder of the current financial year. It was also agreed that a copy
of the "Home Safety Bulletin," published by RoSPA quarterly, should
be sent to all members of the Committee.
At the end of the year the Home Safety Advisory Committee, in addition
to the Council members mentioned above, included members from 18
voluntary organisations, including the local press, and arrangements were
in hand to give, early in 1953, film shows and talks to various organisations.
(Owing to legal difficulties the Council, early in 1953, handed over
the administrative control to a voluntary committee.)