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Deptford 1927

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Friday, October 28th.
2 p.m. Infant Consultations.
3.15 p.m. Address to Mothers by Dr. Mabel Brodie.
"The Homes We Live In."
6-7 p.m. Films for Children (see list).
7-7.40 p.m. Films for Adults (see list).
8 p.m. Men's Evening. Lecture by Mr. E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S.
(British Social Hygiene Council).
Chairman—Councillor A. G. Howard.
Films at the Borough Hall.
The display of Films each evening was selected from the following :
for adults.
"The Leaflet." "Empire Builders."
"Safety First Council." "A Hundred Years of Progress."
for children and adults.
"Where there's Life there's 'Ope." "Air and Sun."
"The Bermondsey Milk Film." "The Care of the Teeth."
"Don't Wait till it Hurts." "A Brush with the Enemy."
"Giro, the Germ."
Films at the Cinemas.
The Proprietors of the following Cinemas kindly agreed to include
a few short Films on Health matters during the week:—
The Broadway Theatre Cinema. The Brockley Palladium.
The Deptford Electric Palace. The Palladium Cinema, Broadway.
New cross Kinema.—By courtesy of the Proprietors a special
session was devoted to School Children on Saturday morning,
October 29th. Admission, which was restricted to certain age
groups, was by ticket only.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions)
Act, 1920.
No certificates were granted under Section 2 of this Act, to the
effect that premises were not in all respects reasonably fit for human
habitation.
Deptford Health Centre.
This new building (which was opened in January, 1928), is of stock
brickwork with cement mortar, with red brick facings and Portland
stone dressings. The partitions between the various rooms are formed
of three-inch coke breeze slabs set in cement. The whole of the interior
walls are coated with sirapite plaster and distempered.
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