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Health and Baby Week.
Health Week was observed in the Borough during the week commencing
Sunday, the 19th October. The programme included the following: —
(1) Co-operation with the Elementary School Organisation.
Arrangements were made for health lessons to be given and for the children
to write essays during Health Week. The best three essays in each school
department were selected by the Head Teachers for examination in the Public
Health Office for prize awards. Two prizes, one for boys and one for girls, were
awarded to each school. The Mayor and Mayoress (Councillor Percy Hill, J.P.,
and Mrs. Hill) kindly entertained to tea the prize winners and the children whose
essays were selected from the various schools. All, the elementary schools in the
Borough take part in this movement which has become a useful and wellestablished
annual custom in Holborn. For the continued interest displayed by
the girls and boys in this part of our Health Week we are indebted to the teachers.
Everyone appreciates that it is largely by their efforts to inculcate the practising
of good habits and to secure the higher aim that the older children should know
why good habits promote health and bad habits are detrimental to health that
success will come. The school teachers are instrumental in establishing in the
minds of children a " health conscience."
(2) Health Poster Designs.
Children in the elementary schools were invited to enter a competition in
the designing of health posters. Designs were submitted from six schools. Two
prizes were awarded, both going to St. Peter's Italian School.
(3) Exhibition of Health Films.
Arrangements were made for free exhibitions of health films. The films were
shown in the Court Boom at the Town Hall every day during Health Week.
Lunch hour matinees were arranged for the non-resident workers. There were
two special afternoon displays for Holborn mothers and two evening displays for
Holborn residents. The attendances generally were very good, the hall at the
evening displays being filled to capacity.
The following films were exhibited : —
"The Three Card Trick." The Holborn film on the prevention of
diphtheria.
"Giro the Germ."
"Dangerous Handicap."
"Almost a Tragedy."
"Cleanliness is Happiness."
Lent by the Health and
Cleanliness Council.
"The Production of Certified Milk." Lent by the National Association
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
"The Care of the Teeth." Lent by the Dental Board of the United
Kingdom.
"Deferred Payment." Lent by the British Social Hygiene Council.
"Ways of Life."
(4) Anti-Litter Campaign.
Posters dealing with litter on the public way were exhibited throughout
the Borough, and were displayed by means of sandwich board men in the main
streets of the Borough.