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The Exhibition, the first of its kind held in Battersea, was
attended daily by large numbers of the citizens and attracted
a large number of representatives of Health Authorities from other
districts. During the four days it remained open from 11 a.m.
to 10 p.m. The various activities of the Council in the comprehensive
Scheme of Maternity and Child Welfare were represented and
demonstrated by a series of stalls depicting Ante-natal and Postnatal
work. Each stall was arranged and equipped to show the
actual work carried on. Thus there were stalls illustrative of an
ante-natal clinic-room, Dental Clinic, Maternity Hospital lying-in
ward, labour room, post-natal welfare centre and clinic, &c.
Lectures by well-known specialists in Health and demonstrations
with lantern and films in hygiene and preventive medicine were
also successful and instructive features of the Exhibition week.
The activities of the Voluntary Associations linked up with the
Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme were represented
at the Exhibition by stalls illustrating the ancillary work which
they were individually carrying out in the Borough in co-ordination
with the Council's Scheme.
The success of the Exhibition was due to the determination
of the Council to make it attractive and educational. The scope and
extent of the Council's work in relation to Maternity and Child
Welfare was brought to the notice of the general public in a way
in which it could be readily understood and appreciated. No
effort was spared by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
of the Council to make the various exhibits instructive and practical,
and that they succeeded in their object is fully borne out by the
large attendance at the Exhibition on each of the four days it
remained open.
On the last day of the Exhibition very great interest was taken
in the various competitions for mothers in Mothercraft and for
fathers in domestic handicraft. Prizes and Certificates were
presented by the Mayor and Mayoress to the successful candidates.
The work of the competitors was of a high order and reflected
great credit on them for their ingenuity and industry, as well as
on the teachers and lecturers at the Welfare Centres.