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As the above scheme will be quite a new departure for any
Sanitary Authority to undertake, and will be of benefit not only to
Bermondsey, but will probably stimulate other Sanitary Authorities
to do something the same, I think it is, therefore, only equitable
that part of the expense should come from the County Council or
the Ministry of Health.
I, therefore, recommend :—
That we send a copy of this report to the London County
Council and request them to make us a " Grant-in-Aid " or
"Block Grant," so that the whole expense will not fall upon
this Authority.
The following is a copy of a further Report made to the Public
Health Committee on the progress made by the Propaganda
Section:—
It will no doubt interest the Committee to hear the progress
that has been made by the new Propaganda Department which was
started during the Summer of 1924. The departure was such an
entirely new one that we had practically no precedent to guide
us, and much of the work, therefore, that has been done and that we
are proposing to do, is very largely of an experimental nature.
I would like, however, to impress upon the Committee that the
very novelty of the work has proved one of our greatest difficulties,
and only those who are actually engaged in searching for and carrying
out new ideas on propaganda, realise the difficulties to be encountered
and to be overcome. For instance, with the van we use, we were
informed by the best people in the cinema trade that certain things
could not be done, as they themselves had tried to overcome the
difficulties in Wembley. The Propaganda Department, however,
has given them a lead in this matter, and shown them how the difficulties
which they discovered could be completely surmounted.
Another difficulty which we were told was insuperable was the
sudden interchange between the cinema and the lantern. This we
have also overcome with the help of a special switch made by a