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Special interest was taken in the Dental demonstration
affecting school children.
Health Week began on Saturday, September 25th. On
Sunday, September 26th, a Service was held in West Ham Park,
where a Choir composed of some 8,000 children from the Elementary
Schools was present, and sang well known hymns,
accompanied by the Band of H.M. Scots Guards. This event
roused extraordinary interest in Health Week amongst the
scholars and parents, and it is due mainly to this publicity that
no fewer than 35,000 people visited the Health Exhibitions
held during the week. Unstinted praise and the thanks of all
concerned should be extended to the teachers who, in the
interests of the public health, worked so hard and so successfully
to organise such a Choir of school children, and to gather
them together in the Park and disperse them without hitch
or accident.
Cheap Tram Fares.
Credit is due to the Electricity and Tramways Committee,
who through the Tramways Manager (Mr. Slattery) have
introduced cheap fares for the children during the school holidays,
to enable them to travel at little cost, to the open spaces
adjoining the Borough—particularly Wanstead Flats, with its
many acres of grassland. This has not only benefited their
health and brought happiness to many of the children, but has
proved a financial asset.

*Inter-running with L.C.C. Trams.