Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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In connection with the campaign, arrangements were made for
distributing the literature and displaying the appropriate posters
during its various phases.
The Public Health Committee, in conjunction with the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee, arranged a series of health lectures
and demonstrations which were held in the borough during March.
The programme was as follows :
Wednesday, 9th March.
10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. Display of health publicity films to school children
at the Savoy Cinema, Stoke Newington High
Street, N. 16.
Thursday, 10th March.
2.45 p.m. A meeting of mothers at the Library Hall, Stoke
Newington. Subject: "Maternal Welfare."
Silent film: " The Leaflet."
3.0 p.m. A talk to the mothers. "The Health Services for
Mother and Child," by Miss J. Halford, O.B.E.
3.30 p.m. " Infant Management "—Bathing and Dressing
Baby. Silent film.
4.0 p.m. A Cookery Demonstration (by arrangement with
the National Milk Publicity Council).
Friday, 11th March.
7.30 p.m. A Public Meeting in the Library Hall, Stoke
Newington. Subject: "Physical Fitness."
Demonstration by Women's League of Health
and Beauty.
8.0 p.m. Lecture by H. A. Cole, Esq., O.B.E. (Extension
Secretary of the Central Council of Recreative
Physical Training).
8.45 p.m. Films: "Analysis of Exercises taken with a
Rhythmical Swing"; "Carriage"; "One Hundred
Years."
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