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Object of the Health Society.
The object of the proposed Health Society for the
Borough of Lambeth may be briefly stated as the popularisation
of sanitary knowledge amongst all classes.
Method of establishing the Health Society.
A meeting might be called by the Mayor at the Town
Hall, and special invitations might be sent to attend this
meeting to prominent Lambethians (and others) representing
the Clergy of all Denominations, the Members of Parliament
for the Borough, Medical Men, Members of the Borough
Council and Board of Guardians, Governing Bodies of
Philanthropic and Charitable Institutions, University Settlements,
etc. In this way, the meeting would be attended by
those who are at present interested in the subject, and who
are anxious that such a Society should be formed within the
Borough, and the success of the Meeting would be thereby
ensured. At this meeting a resolution might be passed
establishing a Health Society for the Borough of Lambeth,
with the election of Officers and also of a temporary Committee,
with power to take the necessary steps in connection
therewith.
It is, in my opinion, of the greatest importance that the
Mayor should take the initial step in establishing the Health
Society which would thereby have the moral sanction and
support of the Borough Council as the Sanitary Authority.
In this way it would be definitely understood that the Health
Society (when established) was working in unison with, and
supplementing, the Borough Council's good work, as at
present carried out by the Public Health Department.
Constitution of the Health Society.
The Health Society might consist of (a) Officers (Patrons,
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, an Hon.Treasurer and an Hon.
Secretary or Hon. Secretaries); (b) a Central Executive
Council for the whole Borough ; (c) Local Committees, representing
the Outer and Inner Wards, individually and collectively.
To one or other of these Committees all voluntarv
district workers (religious or otherwise) might be attached
and their work organised and co-ordinated. With all the
Local Committees, and with the Central Executive Council,
the Health Department of the Borough should be in touch
at all times.
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