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case the party has been received by the Medical Officer of Health,
and personally shown through the building by him. These
visits provide further opportunities for lectures and talks on
hygiene and in my opinion are really valuable.
There are three waiting rooms in the Centre and each has
been equipped with a "Propaganda Table." These have been
specially constructed to take thirty-six lantern slides, 6½in. by
4¾in. The slides rest on the top of the table under a sheet of
glass, and arranged under the slides are ten tubular lamps for
illumination. Each Monday morning a complete change is made
and another series is on view for the week. Almost every patient
who has to wait at all, spends part of the time at the table.
In October the Prime Minister opened a great National Health
Campaign, the slogan of which was "Use Your Health Services."
Bermondsey, in common with all other Local Authorities, proceeded
to advertise its Health Services even more extensively
than before in an endeavour to make them better known. It
will be seen from other sections of the Annual Report that already
in this borough 100 per cent, of expectant mothers attend antenatal
centres, 86 per cent, of the mothers and infants eligible to
attend made nearly 56,000 visits to the Infant Welfare Centres,
and 82,000 treatments were given in the Solarium. It seems
almost impossible for the Health Services to become more widely
known in the borough than they already are, but every suggetsion
made to this end has received consideration.
During the year two new films were written, photographed and
produced by the Council's staff. The first entitled "Alive and
Kicking," was taken at the headquarters of the Arsenal Football
Club at Highbury by the kind permission of the Manager, Mr.
George Allison. The main portion of the film shows the men in
training, and is most useful and instructive for lectures on "Keeping
Fit." It is extremely popular with audiences of school boys
and young men, especially so as the lecturer, a doctor on the
staff of the Department —Dr. James Marshall —is an ex-Arsenal
player.