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pictures showing infection from expectoration, overcrowding, bad
ventilation, poor food, late hours, drink, etc., and the converse—open
air, good food, etc.
The relationship of flies, manure heaps and lidless dustbins to
summer diarrhoea in infants must be emphasised.
(e) Municipal Dental Stall. Models of teeth. Models of
right and wrong way of keeping tooth brush. Photographs of school
dental clinics. Model of school clinic. Samples of wrong food and
and their effects on children's teeth. Charts and mottoes.
(f) A Tuberculosis Shelter is attractive and instructive.
Fix posters to its walls explaining causes as described above. Place a
slide of the tubercle bacilli under a microscope and exhibit micro-photographs
taken by the super microscope made by Messrs. Davidson & Co.,
Manufacturing Opticians, 29 Great Portland Street, W. These microphotographs
bring home the story effectively and on a scale which I
have not seen before.
(g) Sanitary Inspectors' Stall. Models of sanitary fittings
obtained from pottery. Diagrams showing dangers of defective and
improper sanitary fittings. Make clear the necessity for cleansing sinks
and traps. Model or diagram of destructor. Display of disinfectant
fluids, powder, soaps and appliances from the Sanitas Co., Ltd.,
Locksley Street, Limehouse, London, E.
(h) Enquiries. Either a small stall or box at which enquiries can
be made on all Health subjects, or a letter box with writing materials
at hand,.into which enquiries can be dropped to be answered by the
Medical Officer of Health in due course.
(i) Magazine Stall. Copies of health journals for sale, such as
"The Hospital and Health Review," "Maternity and Child Welfare,"
" National Health," also a few popular editions of books such as
" Housing and Public Health (Robertson), (Scurfield), (Scharlieb).
A final word on Exhibitions. If your Council will allow it, spend
£7 10s. (and £2 for carriage) on the travelling exhibition of the Central
Council for Infant and Child Welfare, Carnegie House, 117 Piccadilly,
London W. This should be booked nine or twelve months in advance.
It is the world's finest exhibition in this line, better even than Deptford's.
Decorations for the Hall must be simple and hygienic; avoid
draperies and flags. Use screens extensively, obtaining the same from