REGULAR OVERHAULS
UNIQUE HEALTH CENTRE The Pioneer Health Centre, which was opened 18 months ago at St. Mary’s road, Peckham, London,, as an experiment in social and health welfare. has attracted the attention of the Ministry of Health and medical officers of health in all parts of the country. It has been visited (says a writer in the Daily Telegraph) by people from America, France, and Germany. In the heart of a modern building, with large window spaces and broad sun balconies, is a fine swimming.bath, where yesterday I saw boys and girls of which any country could be proud disporting themselves. Near the bath a gymnasium was m full use, and scores of sun-tanned youngsters were playing in the open. Mothers and elder sisters were sitting in comfortable chairs reading knitting. or watching the swimming, dicing, and other sports and games. In the evening the adult members ot the family take advantage of the club’s other amenities—dancing, billiards, physical training—or becoming members of the band or joining one of the many societies for special interests. The subscription per family is Is a week ~ . Each member of the family is given a medical overhaul at regular intervals. It is in this respect, more than in any other, that the centre can justify its claim to be the first of its kind in the world The chief aim of the doctors who inspired the movement and are now directors of the centre —Miss Innes, H. Pearse. and Mr G. Scott Williamson—is to detect illness so early that it can be cured easily. It is hoped to obtain for the club, in the next two or three years, a membership of 1500 families. At present there are 400. That there are not more is attributed entirely to the novelty of the scheme. People living in the locality cannot quite make 't out and are a little shy of joining. The Executive Committee believes that the centre will ultimately be self-supporting, and that it will be the first of a chain of similar clubs throughout the country
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 10
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344REGULAR OVERHAULS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 10
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