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Poplar 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Stenhouse Williams ("Clean Milk"), and Sir William Collins
("Public Health").
The Exhibition included :—
(a) The Travelling Exhibition of The Central Council for Infant
and Child Welfare.
(b) An exhibit upon milk provided by the National Milk
Publicity Council.
(c) A milk exhibit provided by the National Institute for
search in Dairying, Reading.
(d) Display of garments made in the Council's Maternity and
Child Welfare Clinics.
(e) Exhibit by the British Social Hygiene Council.
(f) An information bureau.
In addition, the public were invited to view the Council's Artificial
Sunlight Centre, and through the kindness of the Principals, the Royal
College of St. Katharine, and the Children's House, Eagling Road.
In connection with the Campaign, a handbook of general public
health information was compiled, and a copy distributed to every house
in the Borough.
In co-operation with the Libraries Committee, 5,000 bookmarks,
showing the health facilities available in the Borough and giving some
"health hints," were distributed through the Public Libraries, and a
page in the Library "Quarterly Record" was reserved for public health
information.
Maternity and Child Welfare.—An Artificial Sunlight Treatment
Centre was opened on 20th March, 1925, at the Parish Hall, Avenue Road,
Bow. The work of this Centre is dealt with in the body of my report.
A new and commodious clinic for North Poplar has been erected at
the rear of Nos. 134 and 136, High Street (this was officially opened on
12th January, 1926), and sanction has been obtained from the Ministry
of Health for the establishment of a second artificial sunlight clinic. The
clinic is described in my report.