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Advice 434
Infant Welfare Exhibition.
An Infant Welfare Exhibition was held by the Council in the
Grand Hall of the Town Hall, on June 24th-27th. The Exhibition
was opened on the first day by the Right Hon. Christopher Addison,
M.D., F.R.C.S., ex-Minister of Health. His Worship the Mayor
(Councillor H. Harling, J.P.) presided, and he was supported by
a number of distinguished visitors and by members of the Council.
There was a very large attendance of the public present, and Dr.
Addison, referring to the occasion, said that what he saw that
afternoon was something in the way of a return for what was done
a good many years ago, and recalled the efforts he had made to secure
the adoption of a Bill to provide that elder schoolgirls might have
instruction in infant welfare. Now children were being taught all
manner of things that would help them in after life. In connection
with infant mortality he never expected to see it reduced to 50 per
1,000 births, but it had been so reduced in Battersea. He complimented
the Council in their efforts to promote an effective
comprehensive Scheme of Maternity and Child Welfare which had
produced results such as those shown in the statistical returns
prepared by the Medical Officer of Health, and which were not
only reflected in the reduction of the mortality rate but in the
improved standard of health and physique of the children as
compared with former generations. He was surprised and delighted
that when the economists came along in 1919 with the Geddes Axe,
they had refrained from striking at the expenditure on this work.
There were two reasons for this: firstly because of the magnificent
results accomplished, and secondly that the cost was so small.
Wonderful results had been obtained in the borough, and he hoped
the Council would continue their efforts.
After declaring the Exhibition open, a vote of thanks was
proposed to Dr. Addison and carried with acclamation.
On subsequent days the Exhibition was formally opened by
Miss Lena Ashwell, Dr. L. Haden Guest, M.C., M.P., and Dame
Janet Campbell, M.D.