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LEGISLATION IN FORCE.
Local Acts.—Nil.
Special Local Orders.—Nil.
General Adoptive Acts.—Baths and Washhouses Acts, adopted
November 9th, 1901.
Bye-laws—
1. Made by the Borough Council:
For the Prevention of Nuisances, under Sect. 16 (1),
39 (2), and 50 of Public Health (London) Act, 1891—
15.8.1895.
For the Regulation of the Borough Mortuary, under
Sects. 88 and 89, Public Health (London) Act, 1891—
21.11.95.
With respect to Houses let in Lodgings, under Sect. 94,
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.—8.3.1905.
2. All Bye-laws made by the London County Council,
including those relating to Drainage, and Houses let
in Lodgings.
DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION ON HEALTH MATTERS.
The ordinary health services of a community should diffuse
information through the attentive performance of their customary
duties, as well as by special means commonly called propaganda.
Thus, within its sphere, the whole staff of the health department
should seek to maintain an educative outlook in its day-to-day
work, quite apart from the use of exhibitions, lectures, posters
and leaflets. The Sanitary Inspectors can and do impart much
knowledge appertaining to healthy living as they go about their
districts, whilst the Health Visitors are virtually teachers of
mothercraft. The efficiency of the department as a source of
light and leading cannot thus be measured by the amount of
energy and money devoted to propaganda in the limited sense.