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HEALTH EDUCATION.
In addition to the talks given to mothers by the Health Visitors
at the Ante-Natal and Infant Welfare Centres in the Borough, a
few lectures were given during the year to school children and
members of various societies and associations.
A set of lantern slides, illustrating the work of the Public
Health Department, were prepared for the use of the Borough
Librarian in a lecture to students of the Dalston Literary Institute.
These slides were used subsequently in lectures given by members
of the staff of the Public Health Department, a lantern being borrowed
for the purpose. The illustrated lectures proved so popular
and valuable that the Public Health Committee authorised the
purchase of a lantern.
The set of slides has been supplemented so that the Department
now has a library of approximately 150 slides dealing with public
health subjects.
Since the purchase of the lantern the Department has received
a number of requests for lectures to be given to school children,
members of clubs, etc.
Pamphlets and booklets with regard to health and the prevention
of infectious disease are also distributed by the Public Health
Department.
HOSPITALS.
The Hospitals with which the Council has made arrangements
for the admission of patients are :—
(1) Situated Within the Borough -
(a) The Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital, Lower Clapton
Road.— The number of beds provided for the reception of maternity
cases, exclusive of isolation and labour beds, is 88.
(b) St. ,Joseph's Hospice for the Dying, Mare Street.—Seventyfive
beds are provided at this Institution for the reception of patients
in the last stages of illness.
(2) Situated Outside the Borough—
(a) The City of London Lying-in Hospital, City Road.
The arrangements made with the two maternity hospitals are
described on page 48 of this Report, whilst the use made of St.
Joseph's Hospice for the Dying for the isolation of cases of advanced
tuberculosis is shown on page 124,