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has been Dr. D. M. Connan, but lectures were also given by Mr.
Grantley Smith on Dental Work and Dr. Kynaston on Flies.
One of the principal activities of the Propaganda Section has
been the making of kinema films. When we started this we found
that none of the firms had any films that were worth very much
from a health point of view and we found it necessary to do our own
work in this respect. Neither could any of the firms provide us
with suitable lamps or lenses for a portable street kinematograph.
All these difficulties were overcome by the staff of the Department.
I would like to mention, in this connection, that the whole of the
success is due to the enthusiasm of Dr. D. M. Connan, the Propaganda
Officer, and he has manged to infuse this into the other members
of the staff. Among these I would like to mention Mr. Bush, Chief
Clerk; Mr. Freeman, Chief Inspector; Mr. Kent, Propaganda Clerk;
and the Dispensary Nurses.
The work done by Mr. Grantley Smith, the Municipal Dental
Surgeon, will be found on page 53, and two tables showing the excelent
work done by him will be found in his report.
The re-organisation of the Dispensary, which was decided on in
1923, was carried into effect in 1924 and resulted in a great improvement
in the work. This improvement consisted mainly in cutting
down to a minimum the attendance of those not actually suffering
from tuberculosis, and seeing patients by appointment so that the
Dispensary should never become overcrowded. This work necessitated
going through all the old case papers, the result being that
all those persons who had ceased attending the Dispensary for any
cause, such as death or not suffering from tuberculosis, were removed
from the records, which had become quite unwieldy with the enormous
number of cases that had been disposed of but had never
been removed from the records. Particulars of this will be found
on pages 5 & 7 et seq.