[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough.
- Todmorden (England). Borough Council
- Date:
- 1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Todmorden Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![W'lieii I am asked to discuss in this report Kpidemic Diarrhoea, I am at a loss what to say, because, althougli we do get a few cases of J)iarrh(jea amongst infants during tlie sum¬ mer months, we get nothing in the nature of an epidemic such as I can remember twenty years ago. I'his is a matter on which yon may congratulate your¬ selves unreservedly. I am persuaded it means an improve¬ ment all round in domestic management and infant feeding, and that whilst it reflects credit on you and on your Staff, it reflects ever great credit on the mothers of Todmorden who realise that mothercraft is a skilled occupation requring study and close application. During 1921 and again in 1925, Health Week was ob¬ served in Todmorden. In 1921 the response was phenomenal and it was with great trepidation we approached the problem of holding a Health Week in 1925, because it was felt by those in a position to know that our previous effort had surpassed ainTliing we could have ho]jed to achieve, and anything which we could hope to repeat. I can best sum u]) the success of Health Week in 1925 b} saving that it did even succeed the phenomenal success of 1921. There were three main lectures, many subsidiary lectures, and an Exhibition. Nearly every orgnisation operating in the Town in any was associated with Health was represented, and a very large Committee was formed, which was in itself a measure of the success later to be achieved. Some time before Health Week opened it became apparent to those who were working industriousl}” that the' thing was going well and that we might expect anything. When I say that one of the lectures was attended by 800 people and the last lecture of the series which was to have been a subsidiary lecture at Roomfield School, at the last minute had to be transferred to the Town Hall, ^mu will realise the enthusiasm which maintained the spirit of Health Week throughout the week. After the last lecture I was given an opportunity of saying the proverbial few words. In the short space of time allotted to me I tried to sum up the message of our Health Week, and whilst I felt that the great lesson we had been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30189329_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
