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Saturday, May 13, 1972
HEALTH EDUCATION EXHIBITION
Four-Day Show In Yuen Long's Town Hall
The Medical and Health Department will put on a Health Education
Exhibition in the Yuen Long Town Hall between May 16 and 19, both days
inclusive, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily.
The exhibition will comprise 22 panels illustrating through cartoons,
figures, and diagrams, a number of themes that the department wants emphasized
at this time among the young.
There will be panels on nutrition, the protection of the eye-
sight, and the prevention of gastric-intestinal diseases.
The series on the eye-sight, for example, will illustrate defects
in the focusing of the eye, the cause of myopia, and how myopia can be
prevented.
The Health Education Unit of the department has contacted the
Education Department, the Police, and the District Offices in the New
Territories about this exhibition in the hope of attracting an audience of
school children and young people, generally, in the area.
An attendance of between 7,000 and 10,000 is expected.
the schools will be sending along groups of pupils in tours. Certain teachers
are organising essay competitions in connection with the panels.
The Health Education Exhibition is the work of the department's
Health Education Unit. It tours the New Territories regularly,
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