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Leaflets on health subjects were issued, as in previous years, for distribution
by means of "Please take one " boxes in the public conveniences for men and
women.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1926, gave power to
Metropolitan Local Authorities to arrange for the publication of information of
questions relating to health or disease and for the delivery of lectures and the
display of pictures in which such questions are dealt with. This new power should
be of much use in the dissemination of knowledge of health subjects.
In the Borough of Holborn we have, from time to time, made use of pictorial
propaganda to the limited extent permissible before passing of the Act of 1926. It
is all to the good that essential health requirements should be presented in pictorial
form in order that such teaching may be absorbed and made part of the belief and
life, not only of children but of young and even adults.
Manufacture, of Wine.
A number of residents in the Italian Colony make wine. In 2 cases wine is
made under excise licences but in other cases it is for home consumption only.
The method adopted in the Colony for making the wine, is as follows: —
Grapes are imported from Italy in boxes containing about SO lbs. of small
black grapes. The grapes having been washed and freed from stalks, are placed
in a press where the juice is pressed out into vats. The pulp is also placed in the
vats with the juice. To start fermentation, and give the wine its characteristic
flavour, grapes with their stalks are boiled and the liquor resulting therefrom is
poured into a vat containing the juice from the pressed grapes in the proportion of
the liquor from 20 lbs. grapes to 40 gallons juice. The mixture is then allowed to
ferment for 8 or 10 days, being stirred twice daily. The liquor is then drawn off
and placed in barrels with the open bungholes at the top. Fermentation is continued,
the barrel being kept full and the froth or scum allowed to escape. When
fermentation ceases the bung is sealed up. After standing about three months
the wine is drawn off and bottled. It is stated that from 2½ to 4 gallons of wine
is obtained from 80 lbs. of grapes.
Finsbury and Holborn Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment.
In June, 1927, the above Committee was re-appointed by the Ministry of Labour. The
Committee includes representatnes nominated by the London County Council and the London
Teacher's Association. The Secretary of the Committee is Miss A. B. Gaite, King's Cross
Employment Exchange, 207a, Pentonville Road. The Annual Report of the Committee for
the year 1927 gives a record of the work done in connection with placing boys and girls in
employment, industrial supervision of boys and girls, apprenticeships, overseas settlement,
and other activities cognate to the welfare of boys and girls leaving school.
The Use of Vita Glass.
Opportunity has again been taken during the year to call attention to the desirability
of the use of Vita glass. This grlass lets actinic rays through and its use in place of
ordinary window glass is much to be desired where possible
Vita glass is made in three different types, namely. Clear Sheet Vita glass similar to
ordinary transparent window glass, which can be used in ordinary sash sizes, the standard
price being 2s. per sq. ft... Polished Plate Vita glass about 5/32 in. thick, costing from 4s.
per sq. ft. upwards according to size, and Cathedral Yita Glass with a semi-transparent
surface about 5 in. in thickness at l'Pd. per so. ft.
In the list of prices current for materials as published in The Builder (".Time. 1928V
2fi 07.. English sheet glass (thirds) is quoted at G^d. per sq. ft-, and English rolled plate, 5}d.