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The St. Pancras Fathers' Council has been in existence for several years. I have the
honour to be the President. The objects of this movement are to encourage fathers to take
a more active interest in family welfare from a Public Health point of view. This encouragement
is made through meetings which take place mostly at the Queen's Crescent Welfare
Centre on several evenings each month. Lectures are given on a variety of subjects and
discussions are invited. The membership in St. Pancras grows but at a very slow rate. The
movement deserves encouragement and support.
During the year the Council sent Miss Bagnall and Miss Harrop to the Eighteenth
Winter School for Health Visitors. This "refresher course" was most valuable to the
chosen persons and to their fellow workers. It brought them into contact with what is being
done elsewhere and the methods and ideas which are being advocated by the leading
workers in the Maternity and Child Welfare Movement.
Percival V. Pritchard,
Deputy Medical Officer of Health.