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3. The Hales Street (Voluntary) Infants' Welfare Centre is now
conducted by your Medical Officer of Health.
4. A most successful Health Week (including Baby Week) is
now held, attended annually by thousands of people.
5. Although the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1925, do not
apply to London, and we are therefore precluded from spending money
on Public Health Propaganda, a series of eight lectures on health
subjects was given in the Town Hall, by your medical officers, on
alternate Wednesday evenings to appreciative audiences.
Now, prevention is cheaper than cure, and as I have always
maintained that progress in public health depends first and foremost on
an enlightened public opinion on health matters, it has been my aim to
push the educational side of our work to great lengths. The public
press has been freely used, and many a winter afternoon or evening
has been given up to expounding the principles of health to public and
private groups and associations in the Borough. Quiet and effective
educational work has been carried out by the Health Visitors and
Sanitary Inspectors in their day-to-day visitations.
Much use has been made of leaflets and booklets giving advice as
to cancer, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, flies and summer
diarrhoea, as well as those on the rearing of infants and the care of the
expectant mother.
6. The work at the Tuberculosis Clinic has been reorganised, and
the good work of the Tuberculosis Care Committee can be visualised
by a perusal of the special report on the Secretary's experiences,
embodied herein.
7. The growth of the Ante-Natal, Tuberculosis, and Ultra-Violet
ray activities has involved the consideration of plans for a new
building, but this latter will be dealt with in my report of next year.
8. In the Autumn of 1925, I wrote a lengthy report for the Public
Health and also the Baths and Washhouses Committee, advocating
the necessity for the provision of a continuous flow of clean water in
the swimming baths so as to remove impurities and to bring matters
up-to-date in this connection. The Council decided to instal Bell Bros,
filtration and aeration plant and accessories at the Laurie Grove Baths.
9. Following a Representation made in 1925, under Section 4 of
the 1890 Public Health Act, concerning the Watergate Street area,