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SECTION F—MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES
HEALTH PUBLICITY
Film Shows.
Eleven Film Shows for exhibition to the general public were held during the
year. The practice of including a full-length feature film in the programme was
continued and, on the whole, the shows were well attended. Arrangements were
made on each occasion for the Chair to be taken by a Member of the Public Health
Committee and the audience was addressed by the Medical Officer of Health or
Deputy Medical Officer of Health. The shows were held in various Borough
Council Libraries. The health films exhibited were provided by :—
Central Film Library
Gas Council
Gaumont'British Film Division
Imperial Chemical Industries
Sound Services for Dental Board
Foote, Cone and Belding
National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
British Rheumatic Association
and were entitled :—
" Another Case of Poisoning " " Creatures of Comfort "
" Something to Chew on " " Defeat Tuberculosis "
" Your Children and You " " His Fighting Chance "
" The Good Housewife in her Kitchen " " The Fight Against Disease "
" The Bed Bug " " Brushing Your Teath "
" Energy Foods " " How to Catch a Cold "
" Prevention is Better " " Grip on the Nation."
" Guilty Chimneys "
Lectures and Demonstrations
At the request of the Head of the Department of Catering and Domestic Science,
Northern Polytechnic, arrangements were made for a party of students to attend a
lecture at the Town Hall, to visit the Council's Refuse Disposal Plant, and old and
new Housing Estates. The lecture was given by the Medical Officer of Health, the
subjects covered being the Health Services and food hygiene.
In October, the Deputy Medical Officer of Health and the Deputy Chief
Sanitary Inspector were guest speakers at the Islington Literary and Debating Society,
the subject matter of their talk being " Some Aspects of Food Hygiene."
Chamber of Commerce meeting—Food Hygiene
The Islington Chamber of Commerce arranged a lecture-demonstration on the
subject of Hygiene in Food Handling in the Public Hall of the Town Hall on the
evening of Monday, 22nd November. The Medical Officer of Health was invited
to take part in the proceedings, together with Dr. Charles Hill, then the Parliamentary
Secretary. Ministry of Food, and Mr. A. H. Walters, a Bacteriologist and well-known
lecturer on the bacteriology of food hygiene.
The Chamber of Commerce invited food trading concerns in Islington, and
also extended invitations to neighbouring Chambers of Commerce. It is considered
that this effort by the Chamber of Commerce to improve traders' hygiene standards
is a step in the right direction.