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CREMATION.
Adequate facilities for cremation are available at the Crematorium
provided by the Corporation of the City of London, at
Manor Park, Little Ilford.
Full particulars can be obtained from the Superintendent, City
of London Cemetery, Little Ilford.
PROPAGANDA.
(a) Posters.—A poster hoarding at the corner of Farnan
Avenue and Forest Road has been taken over from the late Empire
Marketing Board for the display of health posters supplied by the
Central Council for Health Education. Your Council makes an
annual grant of five guineas to the Central Council.
(b) Health Education.—Every opportunity is taken by all
the Staff of the Department to give individual instruction in Health
Education as a normal part of their routine work.
In addition, several members of the StaS have lectured on
various subjects to organisations in the town.
Your Council subscribes one guinea per annum to the Industrial
Health Education Society. Three lectures were arranged by the
Society in Walthamstow during 1936 on the following subjects:—
1. Diseases affecting general and municipal workers.
2. Dermatitis.
3. Teeth in relation to health.
Rainfall.—The following information has been obtained from
the Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, and refers to the rainfall
at the Ferry Lane recording station:—
Average rainfall, 1900-1909 23.21 inches
Average rainfall, 1910-1919 24.82 inches
Average rainfall, 1920-1929 28.23 inches
-which represents a yearly average of 25.2 inches over the 30 years.
The rainfall during 1936 was as follows:—
January 4.22 inches
February 1.34 ,,
March 1.10 ,,
April 1.34 ,,
May 0.31 ,,
June 3.48
July 2.52 inches
August 0.36 ,,
September 2.18 ,,
October 1.75 ,,
November 3.11 ,,
December 1.84 ,,
Total 23.55 inches.