Report of Health Week Committee
1924-02-25 1924 1920s 4 pages Report of Health Week Committee. Schools. The officials in the County are giving a course of 24 lectures extended through the winter session. The cost incurred in the organisation has been met by the General Purposes Fund of the Insurance Committee. Warwickshire County...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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25 February 1924
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| Summary: | 1924-02-25
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1920s
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Report of Health Week Committee. Schools. The officials in the County are giving a course of 24 lectures extended through the winter session. The cost incurred in the organisation has been met by the General Purposes Fund of the Insurance Committee. Warwickshire County Council. Addresses were given in 23 centres by Medical men and others; leaflets were circulated to the Clergy and Sunday Schools in the County; and the Head Teachers' co-operation was sought in bringing to the notice of School children the principles of health, value of fresh air, cleanliness of person, clothing, home, exercise, etc. The Insurance Committee of the County inaugurated a health propaganda scheme in Cinema lectures for School children, a Medical speaker being provided in each instance. The County Health Visiting Staff undertook the distribution of health literature. Northamptonshire County Council. The Insurance Committee allocated funds for a health propaganda campaign, provided lecturers, Cinema films and literature, and arranged addresses by well-known authorities in many centres. Glamorgan County Council and the Durham County Council arranged very full programmes. At one of the meetings in Durham City Sir George Newman addressed an audience which numbered over 1,000. Among the County Boroughs who arranged programmes for the Week might be mentioned Blackburn, Brighton, Halifax, Hull, Leicester, Plymouth, Preston, St. Helens, Warrington, and West Bromwich. Leicester was remarkable for its extensive programme, which consisted of lectures by Doctors, Nurses and others, and short talks on Health in Schools and Factories, and exhibitions of Housing and Town Planning, a Flag Day for the after-care of Consumptives, addresses and sermons by ministers of all denominations. Some 1,000 Mothers and Babies from Infant Welfare Centres were entertained to tea, 10,000 School children wrote essays, 15,000 School children painted an art poster illustrating the opening of a window with the motto "Let Fresh Air and Sunlight into your Rooms." There were printed for distribution 20,000 handbooks, 20,000 programmes, 20,000 health maxims, 3,000 art posters, 5,000 leaflets (Cleanliness in the Home), and 15,000 small drawings for School children. The Corporation illuminated car with 1,700 Electric Lights paraded the town with the wording : "Health Week : Health is Wealth," and with other health maxims. Health maxims were also shown on the Screens at places of amusement. In London prizes were awarded by the Committee to Children in London County Council Schools for essays on "Why Should I Wash My Body and Wear Clean Clothes?" In all 129 essays (being one from the Boys' side and
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