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Health Education in conjunction with the Surrey County
Council and the sixteen largest centres of population in
the County. Under this scheme, in which this Borough
took part, a monthly "Health Day" was to be organized
in each district for five months. The general plan for
each day comprised a morning visit by school children
to the cinema in order to see special health films, an
afternoon meeting intended particularly for mothers,
and an evening public meeting addressed by a well
known speaker. The first two of these special days were
carried through before the end of the year.
Another new development in health education this
year has been the publication of a local edition of
"Better Health." This is a bright little magazine which
is distributed free from the Public Health Department,
the Public Library and Welfare Clinic, and presents
information on health and other matters in an interesting
and readable form.
OTHER MATTERS.
I am indebted to the Manager of the Kingston-uponThames
Employment Exchange for information regarding
the degree of unemployment in this area.
A rise in the unemployment figures began at the
end of the summer and by December conditions were
somewhat abnormal and compared unfavourably with
1936. The increase was almost entirely confined to the
building trade and certain types of women factory
workers.
A troublesome plague of flies arose in August in a
localized area, the origin of which was traced eventually
to a heap of clinker from the refuse destructor. A proportion
of organic matter had been coming through the
destructor without complete disintegration and offered a
favourable breeding ground for flies. On the removal
of this accumulation the trouble was overcome.