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(2) In one case domestic help was required, but
the patient died before arrangements could
be completed.
(•3) In one case introduction was needed to people
who would purchase leather goods made by
the patient. Help was given.
(4) Other accommodation was required for a
patient with a large family, but there were
no housing vacancies at the time.
(5) Light work was required. Work obtained.
(6) Accommodation needed for three children while
mother was in sanatorium. The Public
Assistance Committee made arrangements,
but subsequently the father of the family
made his own arrangements.
(7) Assistance needed for the provision of clothes,
etc., before admission to Sanatorium. Help given.
XVI.-PROPAGANDA.
It might be well said that all public health work
carries its own propaganda. Preventative medicine is
90 per cent. instructional and 10 per cent. medical practice.
Whether general propaganda is valuable is debatable;
a quiet talk to the delinquent individual brings a
quicker return to the ways of health, but there will, I
fear, always remain the one person in ten who is "anti"
to everything and with whom nothing can be done.
Little general propaganda is carried out by the
Department; talks are given at the centres and at the
Clinic; mothercraft classes are held each year open to
mothers attending the centres, and recently monthly
evening meetings are held for talks, lectures and film
demonstrations.
This work could not be carried out except for the
keeness of the staff who give much of their own free
time to this work.