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MISCELLANEOUS.
Your Council made the following grants during the year to
voluntary organisations:—
Invalid Children's Aid Association £100
Walthamstow Association of Tuberculosis Care
Helpers £25
Mortuary.— A Coroner's Court, mortuary (with special provision
for Infectious Disease cases) and a post-mortem room is
provided by your Council at Queen's Road Cemetery.
The Cemetery Superintendent reports that the number of
inquests and post-mortems were as follows:—
Inquests only 108
Post-Mortem 80
Post-Mortems and Inquests (not included in above) 26
Total 214
CREMATION.
Facilities for cremation are Available at the Crematorium
provided by the Corporation of the City of London, at Manor
Park, 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 Staff have lectured on
various subjects to organisations in the town.
The National Milk Publicity Council arranged lectures and
demonstrations at nine different meetings in the Borough of
Walthamstow during the year:—