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Arising from the misuse of fireworks the
Home Office have been asked to introduce a
system of licensing to enable the sale of
fireworks to be sold for organised displays
only
The Royal Society for the Prevention of
Accidents have been asked to investigate
thequestion of the distribution of door to
door samples particularly when such samples
are placed in letter boxes and are not
delivered on a personal basis
Attention has been given to the means to
publicise the new colour coding of flexible
cords used in connection with electrical
appliances
Consideration has been given to the
measures to be taken informing members of
the public of the hazards arising from the
misuse of portable oil heaters
The Hounslow Project
Miss Louise Dighton Social Worker reports
on the Hounslow Project:
The work of the Hounslow Project is based
on the theory that too little satisfaction and/
or too much frustration brings people to a
point where they cannot continue to function
in society except by making heavy demands
on helping agencies (social workers doctors
clergy family members etc) Without such
a degree of support functioning capacity
declines to a point of increasing withdrawal
from society finally leading to hospitalisation
or in the case of the delinquent to
institutionalisation
The Heimler Scale of Social Functioning
(HSSF) has been developed as a preventive
and predictive tool to make possible the
quick and easy identification of those at
risk in the field of mental and emotional
illness
Over the past two years measures of
satisfaction and frustration have been taken
on over 1 000 people from within and around
the borough some from normally functioning
people and some from those who were aware
they had problems although they may or may
not have sought help over them From the
samples taken three levels of functioning
have emerged: (1) the normally functioning
group with adequate resources to meet normal
life crises: (2) the at risk group whose
resources are not adequate to meet crises
without support; (3) the group that can barely
swim in the outside world and need constant
help from various caretaking agencies and the
periodic availability of institutional care