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cases, and sometimes extra nourishment. Moreover, clinics for
diagnosis all help to present a hopeful picture so that the tuberculous
patient may bravely journey towards ultimate health. But the
insidious mischief of tuberculosis attacks the mind as well as the
body, and to "minister to the mind diseased" a handicraft class has
been started so that such patients can earn a little pocket money.
Even now, the interest of the exhibition is not exhausted.
There is a model showing how diphtheria immunisation is carried
out; a miniature pasteurising plant shows the safe milk being
ensured; canned food is displayed in piles, and defective tins are
shown so that the housewife may not buy contaminated food; how
to convert semi-underground dwellings into light, habitable houses,
and the life cycle of the bed bug are also demonstrated vividly.
And, if you are really keen, the public library's trained assistants
can always recommend books on health, hygiene, housing and
kindred subjects. Indeed, this exhibition itself is a monument of
co-operation, for the whole of the public health staff—medical
officers, health visitors, district nurses, vanmen, clerks, sanitary
inspectors—everyone worked voluntarily to make models and charts,
collect data, and generally put into concrete form the "ideals" of
public health, so that Blake's Jerusalem may soon be rebuilded in
the streets of London where he saw it. But this great "parable"
will be rejected as so many others have been if the ordinary person
does not interpret it to himself, and, by his co-operation, translate
it into actuality. Gr. L.
The immense amount of space devoted to poster advertising on
hoardings is, no doubt, an indication of the value placed upon this
advertising medium by commercial undertakings. The same value,
presumably, may be placed on this type of display in connection
with health education work. The Government campaign for a
"Fitter Britain" and the free supply of posters and other propaganda
material for six months gave the Council an opportunity of
bringing to the notice of the public generally the various health
services, and the Borough Council, through the Central Council for
Health Education, arranged for the display of posters for three
months at a cost of £95 16s. 8d.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
The arrangements made with the Camberwell Research
Laboratories and the Royal Institute of Public Health for
bacteriological examinations have been continued.
Full details of bacteriological examinations during the year
will be found in the section of this Report dealing with infectious
diseases.