Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN
THE AREA.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
In addition to talks to individual mothers and to groups of mothers at the maternity and child welfare centre, lectures on health subjects, most of which were illustrated with films, were given by the staff of the Public Health Department to the following organisations in the Borough:—
Date. | Audience. | Subject. | Speaker. | Approx. Attendance. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan. | 4th | Guinness Trust Tenants' Association | Health and Cleanliness | Mr. C.J. Haynes | 60 (children) | ||
” | 4th | ” ” | ” ” | Miss D. Gentry | 36 | ||
” | 12 th | N. Hackney Labour Party | Food Inspection | Mr. G. Alexander | 49 | ||
” | 18th | ” | Maternity and Child Welfare | Mr. C. J. Haynes and Miss E. Hazelden | 43 | ||
² | 19th | S. Hackney Labour Party, Women's Section | Food Inspection | Mr. G. Alexander | 55 | ||
Feb. | 1st | Guinness Trust Tenants' Association | Care of the Teeth | Mr. H. C. Middleton | 46 | ||
” | 8th | N. Hackney Labour Party Women's Section | Food Inspection | Mr. G. Alexander | 43 | ||
” | 14th | St. Barnabas Church Women's Fellowship | Maternity and Child Welfare | Mr. C. J. Haynes | 56 | ||
” | 14th | N. Hackney Labour Party | Food Inspection | Mr. G. Alexander | 45 | ||
” | 14th | Richmond Road Toddlers' Clinic | Care of the Teeth | Mr. C. J. Haynes | 60 | ||
” | 15th | Guinness Trust Tenants' Association | Tuberculosis and Its Prevention | Miss E. Hamilton | 55 | ||
” | 21st | St. Barnabas Church Women's Fellowship | Work of a Public Health Department | Mr. W. Peverett | 67 | ||
22nd | Richmond Road Parents | Diphtheria and Its Prevention | Dr. H. W. Swann | 30 | |||
Mar. | 1st | Guinness Trust Tenants' Association | Work of a Public Health Department | Mr. W. Peverett | 55 | ||
” | 9 th | N. Hackney Labour Party | Malnutrition | Dr. D. Bielenky | 40 |