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PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION ACT, 1937.
In connection with this Act, which came into force on the 13th July, 1937,
various preliminary matters were considered during the year. After consultation
with the London County Council in regard to facilities which the County Council
were providing under the statute, it was arranged that the Borough Council would
be consulted at an early stage in the event of any further provision in St. Marylebone
being proposed.
On the 9th March, 1938, the Medical Officer of Health presided over a meeting
associated with the Health, Sport and Fitness Exhibition of the Royal Institute
of British Architects, held at the headquarters of the Institute in the Borough.
Survey.
At the request of the Regional Fitness Committee, an exhaustive survey of the
facilities available in the Borough for physical training and recreation was carried
out and a tabulated statement of detailed information forwarded to the Committee.
"Fitter Britain" Exhibit.
The excellent exhibit, "Towards a Fitter Britain," which occupied one of the
four halls of the British Government Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow,
and was seen by nearly four million visitors, was shown, by arrangement with the
Ministry of Health, at Messrs. Selfridge's store in Oxford Street for several weeks.
The exhibition, exceptionally comprehensive, included the following sections:
1. Model Health Clinic; 2. Health Statistics; 3. Enemies of Health; 4. Mother and
Child; 5. Health at School; 6. Health at Play; 7. Good Food; 8. Good Housing.
Afterwards the whole exhibit was handed over to the Central Council for Health
Education, to whose funds the Borough Council make an annual contribution.
Holiday Camps.
Towards the end of the year arrangements were made for the Council to be
represented at conferences of local authorities convened by the National Fitness
Committee (London and Middlesex) to consider the question of the provision of
municipal holiday camps under section 4 of the Act.