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most need of it. The instruction which carries the most
weight is that given in the daily contact of health departments
with the public through the media of health visitors,
sanitary inspectors, welfare centres, schools, etc. Lectures
given on request to organised bodies have a certain value.
Instruction to senior children by qualified persons on
healthy living should receive more attention in schools.
There is no doubt that the most successful part of the
campaign as carried out was the display of cinema films
to children.
OTHER MATTERS.
I am indebted to the Manager of the Kingston-uponThames
Employment Exchange for information regarding
the degree of unemployment in this area. At the end of
the year it was noticed that the incidence of unemployment
was lighter than in adjoining areas, the figures
being approximately—men 250, women 80, and juveniles
20. Most of the unemployed men were of the clerical or
light labouring type and it has been found that very few
Maiden men capable of heavy labour are out of work.
In June the water supply of the district became
affected by an unpleasant musty taste and several complaints
were received. On communication with the
Metropolitan Water Board officials it was stated that the
taste was caused by a vegetable growth in the filters due
to abnormal climatic conditions and that the potability of
the Water was unaffected. The inconvenience proved to be
a very temporary one.