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The Exhibition was an unqualified success and proved to be a
valuable medium for health propaganda. Although much has been
written to the contrary since the holding of the Exhibition, I
venture to express the opinion that the arrangement whereby
stands wen let to selected business firms was a correct one, creating
as they did, life, variety and brightness, and incidentally a public
demand for admission, more people attending, and in consequence
hearing the lectures, seeing the exhibits, and taking away pamphlets,
etc. than otherwise might have been the case. Apart from the
foregoing considerations, I would mention that in my judgment
no finer medium exists for guiding the public in purchasing products
of known purity and production—a point obviously within the
province of the sanitarian—than the invitation to manufacturers
of such goods to display their wares at Health Exhibitions organised
by Local Sanitary Authorities.