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HEALTH EDUCATION
Work on Health Education of the public continued throughout the year.
Posters, handbills, window stickers and counter cards particularly designed to
emphasise safety in the home and food hygiene, were distributed and leaflets
on various health subjects were displayed on Public Library counters and in the
Council Offices for free issue to anyone who cared to pick them up.
As part ofaCivic Week Exhibition held in the Town Hall in July, a Public
Health Department stand was erected, draped and equipped, and manned by members
of the staff of the Department, who gave much of their spare time freely for
this purpose.
Exhibits on many health subjects were on display, the main emphasis being
on Rodent Control, Atmospheric Pollution, Pood Hygiene and methods of Pood
Contamination, and Unfit Housing which linked up with the exhibits on Housing
Redevelopment in the Borough Engineer's section of the Exhibition. Although the
number of people who came to the Town Hall to see the exhibition was not very
great, those who attended were able to ask for and obtain information on matters
of Public Health from the Departmental representative on the stand, and all this
was useful Health Education.
In order to help those people who needed information on suitable appliances
and suitable fuel for dwellings due to be included in the first Smoke Control
Area in the Borough, the North Thames Gas Board and the Coal Utilisation Council
sent their display vans into the Borough for a period, in which various types
of smokeless fire could be seen burning. Many of the general public would first
visit these vans and then come to the Department for further advice and information.
In addition, an old-fashioned fire in the Departmental offices was replaced
by an approved standard type grate with gas ignition, so that enquirers
could be shown the operation of such a fire and could estimate for themselves
how it would compare in comfort and appearance with their existing methods of
heating. This grate was also useful for comparing the suitability of the various
old and new types of smokeless fuel which would be available for purchase once
the Smoke Control Areas were defined and declared.
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