The Public Health Congress

The Public Health Congress

PUBLIC HEALTH. 1934. The Health Education Conference. H E Seventh Annual Conference on Health Education, organised by the Central Council for Health...

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PUBLIC HEALTH.

1934.

The Health Education Conference. H E Seventh Annual Conference on Health Education, organised by the Central Council for Health Education, will be held on Thursday, November 22nd, 1934, in the Lecture Theatre of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, Gower Street, \V.c.!. The morning session will extend from 11 a.rn. to 1.15 p.m , Sir George Newman (Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Board of Education) has consented to act as President of tlie Conference and will deliver an opening address. There will follow a discussion on "The Education of the Public with regard to Nutrition," to be opened by Professor J. A. Nixon, Professor of Medicine, Bristol University, and Dr. \V . G . Savage, County Medical Officer of Health, Somerset. . Dr. James Fenton (Chairman of the Central Council) will speak at the open ing of the afternoon session at 2.30 p.m., after which the discussion On .. Nutrition " will be concluded. A second discussion on .. The Education of the Public with regard to the Consumption of Milk I I will be opened by Dr. Thomas Orr, Medical Officer of Health, Ealing, and Chairman of the Publicity Committee, National Milk Publicity Council, at about 4.15 p.m . At the close of the discussion a new film on .. Infant Management," which has been produced by the National Council for l\Iaternity and Child Welfare, will be shown. It is hoped that a large number of local authorities will appoint delegates. The Minister of Health has sanctioned the payment of expenses of two delegates from each authority, subject to Government audit. The names and addresses of delegates should fie forwarded, not later than November 16th, to the Central Council for Health Education, 1, Upper Montague Street, Russell Square, London, \V.C.l, who will be glad to furnish any further information with regard to the Conference.

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The Public Health Congress. H E Public Health Congress, 1934, is to be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, islington, London, from November 19th io 24th. Sir Frederick Willis, Chairman of the Organising Council, has conveyed an invitation from the Congress Council to any

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members of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, who may not be present as delegates appointed by local authorities, to attend the Congress. He makes special reference to the afternoon session on Thursday, November 22nd, when a discussion on "Food Standards and the recent Report of the Departmental Committee on the Composition and Description of Foods," will be opened by Dr. \V. G. Savage, County ~Iedical Officer of Health, Somerset; Dr. L. H. Lampitt, z.r.c., Chief Analytical Chemist of Messrs. J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., and Mr. J. G. Mathieson, member of the Council of the Food Manufacturers' Federation. Tickets will be sent to any members of the Society who apply to Sir Frederick Willis at 13, Victoria Street, London , S.W.I. These complimentary tickets will admit also to the meeting on Monday, November 19th , at which Sir George Buchanan will deliver an opening address on " International Arrangements for Preventing the Spread of Epidemic Diseases." Sir Arthur Robinson will occupy the chair on this occasion. At a special meeting of the Council of the Association of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres to be held in connection with the Congress on Tuesday, November 20th, at 3 p.m., at which Dr. Charles Porter will preside, there will be a discussion ' on "Team 'York in Ante-natal and Postnatal Care." Tickets of admission may be obtained from the Association at 117, Picca.d illv, London . On Friday, November 23rd, at 11 a.m.; a discussion will take place under the auspices of the Congress Council on the subject of " Voluntary Sterilisation and the Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation." Tickets for this meeting may b~ obtained from the Secretary, Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation, 69, Eccleston Square, London, S.W.I. THE estate of the late Dr. Charles Franks County :i\led ica l Officer of Health for Durha.m' has been valued for probate at £13,849. ' DR. J. M. GIBSON, Medical Officer of Health of H uddersfield, is to preside at a Chadwick Public Lecture to be held at the Technical College, Huddersfield, on Friday evening November 9th, 1934, when Dr. Matthew B' .,R ay will speak on " Fifty Years of Puhlic 'Health Progress." .