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DENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN
This intensive campaign was held during the month of March. A mobile cinema toured
the district for a fortnight and held film shows at selected sites, samples of toothpaste being
distributed to children to encourage tooth care. Posters and display material were displayed in
clinics and schools and distributed to chemists' shops with the co-operation of the Pharmaceutical
Society and Association of Pharmacists. Posters and leaflets on eating hard fruits and other
vegetables were issued to the greengrocers in the district with the assistance of the three
Chambers of Commerce.
HANDICAPPED AIDS
On the 17th, 18th and 19th May an exhibition, in co-operation with a number of manufacturers,
was held in the Ross Wyld Hall, showing the various types of aids available to make life
easier for those people who are physically handicapped. This proved to be very popular and was
well attended.
EXHIBITION AND SALE OF WORK
September 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th were the days on which this event was held at the
Ross Wyld Hall. The public were enabled to see and have an opportunity to purchase work done
by the handicapped people of the borough. A number of those handicapped were at the Exhibition
actually doing their various types of work.
EQUIPMENT
A full set of exhibition stands was made with the assistance of the two Adult Training
Centres and the Physically Handicapped Centre at Roberts Hall. These proved most useful at the
Exhibition held in September and will now be used for future exhibitions and displays.
MOUTH TO MOUTH RESUSCITATION
Films, lectures and demonstrations on this are continually requested. The department
has a manikin which greatly assists in the demonstration.
HOME SAFETY
Requests continue for films and lectures, chiefly from Mothers' Clubs and Groups at
Church Halls and the borough clinics.
The elderly are catered for by film shows on general safety, home safety, fire and general
interest at the Centres and Homes in the borough.
In addition to the above, film shows, talks, lectures and displays have been given to Boy
Scouts, Boys' Brigades, Youth Groups and Centres, Mothers' Groups at religious organisations
and Mothers' Clubs at the clinics in the borough.
H.Bradley
Health Education Officer
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