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opportunity to introduce District Heating, both as a
measure to improve our standard of living and also as
the first major attempt to reduce atmospheric pollution in
the world's greatest city.
In Hammersmith, perhaps the most interesting features
of the year were the much greater attendances at the
Council's Infant Welfare Centres, Ante-natal Clinics and
Tuberculosis Dispensary. This resulted from a greater use
of the Clinics, in addition to increases caused by the larger
birth rate and larger incidence of tuberculosis during the
war years.

The position with regard to mass radiography (the early
diagnosis of tuberculosis of the lungs) is not satisfactory.
The facilities provided by the Loudon County Council for
this method of examination are not such as to adequately
cover the need for it. The L.C.C. Mass Radiography
mobile unit has not visited Hammersmith since it commenced
X-raying Londoners in 1943. Hammersmith last
had the service available from Chelsea in 1945. The unit
will not again come near the Borough until about January,
1948.
The hope that a greater proportion of children under
five years of age in the Borough would receive immunisation
during 1946 has not been fulfilled. The aim of the
Health Department was to increase the percentage
immunised from a figure beneath 70 per cent. to one well
above it, but although the total number of immunisations