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Bermondsey 1941
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1941
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VIII.—PROPAGANDA.
During the year under report the following lectures and demonstrations, illustrated by cinema films, were given in the Borough:—
| No. | Attendance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Public Air Raid Shelters | 127 | 14,250 |
| Civil Defence Personnel | 36 | 2,350 |
| Lectures on First Aid | 11 | 532 |
| Others | 31 | 1,900 |
| 205 | 19,032 |
As in previous years no opportunity was missed of giving lectures
and demonstrations to the public. We were able to carry out a good
deal of work in the public air-raid shelters and 127 visits were paid.
Health films were shown as a part of a general programme of
entertainment which, in most cases, was arranged by the Bermondsey
Shelter Council with whom we are working in close co-operation.
During the year training in film showing was given to a number
of the most suitable men in the Civil Defence Services, and it was
with their assistance that a successful year's programme was completed.
Unfortunately, most of them have since gone into the
Services or to other work, but, during the time they were with us,
they did some very useful work.
We have been enabled to assist the Ministry of Information by
showing their films to shelterers and Civil Defence personnel, and,
in fact, to any available audience.
Towards the end of the year we commenced showing a series of
interest and instructional —including, of course, hygiene —films to
the boys' club in the Borough, as part of the Youth Movement
Scheme.