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Ventilation of the Polytechnic Hall.
40. The ventilation of public halls is usually much neglected.
My attention was called to the bad ventilation of the Polytechnic
large hall. I made certain recommendations some of which
were carried out with a consequent improvement.
Congresses.
41. In company with delegates of the Health and Housing
Committee I attended the following Congresses:—
Congress of Society of Public Health, Eastbourne.
Tuberculosis Congress, London.
Housing Congress, Glasgow
Congress on Smoke abatement, London.
As far as I was concerned all of these Congresses involved
hard but profitable work, in acquiring and helping to communicate
new knowledge tending to sanitary progress, and I
believe all were found very instructive to those who attended.
New discoveries and information are communicated much
more easily by personal intercourse at such Congresses than by
merely reading articles, though this of course is necessary too.
I reported at the time on my experiences of the above meetings.
Sanitary Staff Additions.
42. The following additions were made to the Sanitary Staff
during the year. Mr. Tedham and Mr. Barnes were appointed
Sanitary Inspectors, Mr. Barnes filling a vacancy caused by
Mr. Wood going to Eltham, where there had been no qualified
Inspector before; and Mr. Tedham (appointed first for six
months, and then permanently) being an additional Inspector.
Mr. Barnes was appointed to Burrage Ward (formerly held by