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interest in the history of public health were shown. The Exhibition was arranged
in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who provided
the stands and themselves arranged a comprehensive exhibit which included history
of rodent infestation as well as demonstrations of the problems involved in connection
with the protection of foodstuffs. The other stands included in the Exhibition
comprised the following :—
Public Health Department:—
Disposal of Waste.
History of the Public Health Department.
Housing.
Safety in Food.
Public Health Department in collaboration with the London County Council :—
Care of Mother and Child.
Care of the Elderly.
Control of Infectious Disease.
Other Authorities :—
Royal Free Hospital (illustrating the Liverpool Road Branch, formerly
the London Fever Hospital).
Royal Northern Hospital.
Whittington Hospital.
Metropolitan Water Board.
British Dental Association.
Emergency Medical Service.
In addition to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food providing a newlydesigned
stand, which Islington was privileged to have on show for the first time,
it included a cinema unit with selected health films shown at various times through—
out the day. Help was also given by the Ministry in the form of contributions
towards the cost of exhibition publicity.
In addition to the stands, various exhibits for the different stands were obtained
from the Building Research Station, Hackney Borough Council, Imperial Chemical
Industries, Lead Sheet and Pipe Council, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, Mr. Ritchie Calder of the News Chronicle, North Islington Welfare
Centre, John Peck 6? Co., of Liverpool, the Pharmaceutical Society, Southwark
Borough Council, the Royal Society of Health, and the Wellcome Historical Medical
Museum, among many others.
Whole-hearted co-operation was given by the exhibitors, and the result was a
most exceptional exhibition as well as one which was considered to be most enlightening
on the progress of public health services in the past century. An Exhibiton
Handbook was prepared with contributions from those exhibiting and a brief account
of the Public Health Department, first under the Vestry, then under the Borough
Council, which is reproduced in the form of an appendix to this Report.
Film Shows.
The Department continued with the policy of health publicity film shows for
the general public. Eleven such shows were given, at various Borough Council
Libraries during the year, and the practice of including a full-length feature film
in each programme was retained. On each occasion a member of the Public Health
Committee was in the Chair, and the audience was addressed by the Medical
Officer of Health or Deputy Medical Officer of Health.