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Women's League of Service, St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies Hostel,
St. Margaret's Hostel and Day Nursery, &c.
The Exhibit of the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street,
Chelsea, of a complete installation of the equipment for Artificial
Sunlight Treatment was a great attraction to visitors, who were
afforded an opportunity of seeing this treatment demonstrated
practically on children.
Other exhibits in this Section of the Exhibition were the
Travelling Caravan Exhibit from Carnegie House and the British
Social Hygiene Council (V.D.).
The Tuberculosis Caravan Exhibit of the National Association
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis was very well mounted, and
was largely attended by visitors. This Exhibit provided a highly
educational demonstration of the modern preventive measures
being taken throughout the country against the White Scourge, and
the presence of Dr. Brand, the Director, and his Assistant, Dr. Peill,
contributed greatly to its educational value.
The Dental Board of the United Kingdom provided an excellent
exhibit of dental educational work, showing the need for
the care of the teeth and how this may be secured.
In the public Health Section, several stalls were devoted to
the preventive work of the Health Department of the Council in
respect of infectious and other diseases, protection of the food and
water supplies, general sanitation, rat repression, drainage, &c.
Specially fine and instructive exhibits were those provided by the
Clinical Research Association, the Council's bacteriologists, showing
laboratory work in the diagnosis and prevention of disease; and
by the Metropolitan Water Board, showing how the water supply
of London is maintained and protected against contamination.
The model of the Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary and the exhibit
of Springwell House Open-Air School for Tuberculous children
were also interesting features of this Section of the Exhibition.
In the Housing Section, inter alia, the model of one of the
tenements built by the Council in the Plough Road Slum Clearance
and Improvement Scheme was much admired.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board kindly lent a model showing
the methods carried out for the treatment of Surgical Tuberculosis,
Rickets and other crippling diseases of children at Queen Mary's
Hospital for Children, Carshalton.
The programme included lectures on various health subjects
by distinguished specialists. Those given by Professor Louise
Mcllroy, Dr. Murray Levick, Mr. Geo. Thomson, Dr. Charles Porter,
Dr. Mabel Brodie, Mr. R. Heeguard Warner, and others, were well
attended, and contributed greatly to the educational value of the
Exhibition. A series of talks illustrated by cinema demonstrations
given by Dr. Sydney Peill, of the National Society for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis, to selected parties of the senior scholars from the
public elementary schools in the Borough was very popular. The