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these frames and purchase two sets of posters monthly. The posters shown during
the year were as follows:—
January National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare (E.M.B.
Adapted).
February Food Education Society.
March British Social Hygiene Council.
April British Red Cross Society.
May National Milk Publicity Council.
June National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare.
July Anti-Noise League.
August Dental Board of the United Kingdom.
September National Safety First Association.
October Health and Cleanliness Council.
November National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
December National Smoke Abatement Society.
(g) Cookery Classes.—Demonstrations in cookery were started at the
Tuberculosis Dispensary in April, in order to provide instruction for the wives and
mothers of the tuberculous in the buying and cooking of simple, cheap and nutritious
articles of food and the preparation of them in an appetising, tempting and palatable
way. The demonstrator is loaned by the South Metropolitan Gas Company and
a demonstration meter shows how much the actual cooking has cost, in terms of
pence. The cooked dishes are sold at about half cost to those attending the classes.
A cup of tea and biscuits are provided by the Care Committee at each meeting. The
nett cost to the Council for food for the year was £2 10s. 9d. The number attending
was 21; the number of attendances was 294 and there were 31 meetings.
(h) Bed-Bug Demonstration Stall.—A stall dealing with the bed-bug problem
was prepared for this year's health exhibition. An article describing it was subsequently
written by Mr. C. J. Couch and published in the Journal of the Royal
Sanitary Institute in the November issue, 1934, and the stall was re-constructed and
shown there. The article is reproduced below from part 5 of Volume 55 of the
Journal, by kind permission of the Institute.
"In Woolwich the Bed Bug Campaign has now been intensively pursued for
over two years and the experience gained during that period has clearly shown the
necessity for measures to procure the interest and active co-operation of the general
public. With this end in view the Public Health Department has given the widest
publicity to the subject by memoranda, literature and by practical demonstrations.
A stall at the recent Health Exhibition in Woolwich was set aside for the sole purpose
of focussing attention on the bed bug, its habits, life history and the methods which
are being used in the Borough to exterminate it. In the past too little attention
has been paid to the fact that families living in bug infested dwellings are often led