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Maternity and Child Welfare service, the Local Education Authority, Poor Law
Officers, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Social Service
Workers.
Health Week and Baby Week.
Following the precedents of recent years the celebration of these weeks
was combined, and observed from the 4th to 10th October, 1925.
The efforts made during the week included the following:—
1. A meeting was held in the Court Room on the subject of the provision of
subsidised workshops for tuberculous men and women.
The Right Worshipful The Mayor presided at the opening and the first part
of the meeting, the Chair being subsequently taken by Councillor The Rev. Henrv
Ross, Chairman of the Public Health Committee.
The speakers, in addition to the Mayor and Councillor Ross, included
Mr. G. H. Walmisley, M.C., L.C.C.
Dr. Haden Guest, M.C., M.P.
Dr. Otto May (The Prudential Assurance Company).
Dr. Harry Campbell.
Dr. Noel D. Bardswell, M.V.O. (representing the Central Fund for the
Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons).
The Rev. J. C. Pringle (General Secretary, Charity Organisation
Society).
Dr. G. Quin Lennane (Medical Officer of Health of Battersea).
Councillor J. Berliner (Finsbury).
Mr. W. Westcott, J.P. (Southwark).
The meeting was well attended by members of Metropolitan Public Health
and Poor Law Authorities. Labour Exchanges and Employment Bureaux, Insurance
Companies and Approved Societies and various Voluntary Organisations
interested in the welfare of tuberculous persons.
2. With the co-operation of the teachers in elementary schools a series of
questions, prepared in the Public Health Department, on health topics, were
submitted to the elder children in schools in the Borough. Prizes were awarded
for the best answers received from each school and three boys and three girls
from each school taking part, whose replies were selected by the Head Teacher
as best, were entertained to tea by the Mayor and Mayoress on the occasion
of the distribution of prizes.
Every school in the Borough, with the exception of one where only junior
children are admitted, took part.