Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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This statement of impressions would be incomplete if I did not add,
as one who has been privileged to be associated with this important
educational work, that the personal contacts made in it have been most
friendly and delightful. Sometimes I have felt humbled by an all too
generous gratitude for what has been done. There is nothing formal in
these lectures; they are simply talks on vital subjects in which knowledge
is shared in an atmosphere of good comradeship. That is, I think, why
so many organisations have advanced beyond occasional lectures to a
series in which foundations can be laid of a house of life, a house in
which a freed humanity can move in glad content. Such building needs
no commendation; it speaks for itself the universal language of healthy
bodies and healthy minds.
Summary
Number of Centres at which lectures have been arranged | ||
Number of lectures given (January-December, 1934) | ||
To men and boys 11 | (Attendances 699) | |
To women and girls 87 | („ 5,125) | |
To mixed audiences 6 | ||
(Total attendances 6,004) |
Public Health Education and British Social Hygiene Council.
Arrangements were made with the British Social Hygiene Council for
film displays and addresses on Venereal Diseases to be given at halls in
the Borough during the winter 1933-34.
Two of these were given in April, 1934 (Island Baths, Millwall, and
Bromley Public Hall).
Expenditure Year ending 31st March, 1935.
£ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
Grant to Central Council for Health Education | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Printing, Stationery and Postage | 3 | ||
Fees to Lecturers | 0 | ||
Total | 17 | 3 |