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Health work continues to be a major ll’ICBI‘Ei: of the Women's Institutes. Wherever-ha nweo‘ hospital is being estahlished we t e t men’s Institutes contributing then suppor . itutes of Elgin County have launched oggeslerlfllng enterprise for their new hospital at St. Thomas. The hospital board IS starting the Institutes off with 1500 yards of sheeting and 1500 yards of flannelette, to be_made into sheets, pillow cases, nightgowns, diapers and other hospital garments. In Waterloo County the Institutes. are maks ing sizeable donations to the building of the new Gait Hospital; we have reports of donaâ€" tions of $900 from Central Dumfries, $900 from Preston, $900 from Hespeler, $1350 to furnish a twoâ€"bed ward from Galt; a wheel chair from Jubilee branch. Wellington County Institutes are assisting the county health unit with child health clinics in Clifford, Harriston, Mount Forest, Palmerâ€" ston, Arthur, Drayton, Elora. Fergus, Rockâ€" wood, Erin, and Puslinch and Guelph town- ships. Alliston and Beeton have monthly child health conferences with a doctor and nurse from their county health unit. Grantham sponsors a monthly Well-Baby Clinic. County health unit personnel are frequently called on to bring health education to an Institute group. Pleasant Valley in Oxford County had an address on Mental Health by a nurse from their health unit. A nurse from the Halton unit spoke to the Scotch Block Institute on Cancer, illustrating her talk with a film. Rockton. Central Yarmouth and Roslin report addresses on Mental Health by psychiâ€" atrists. Tavistock had a talk and film on heart disease, Halton County Busy Bees had an West Kent district‘s booth planned to illustrate vuri Handicrafts and untiqu at Chatham's Joycee Fair was our phases at Institute work, es were especially featured. 20 address on the RH blood factor; 5 on arthritis. At Bethany's Home Economics 7....1 meeting each member brought 3 gm for a convalescent child and they,“ trund a la” Health suliah]E l, 2‘31“. l to the Sick Children's Hospital In ’|*::,08Em The conVener read two papers, om- ..,, hm?” pi-evcnt accidents in the heme, .., , “n'ulo care of the teeth. E . Lincoln County is noted for hem “Mi. ‘ _.and so far as we can find out 7 lllt‘-0lllhl 1» county in Ontario to have a Vlt‘ln ., 70m} Nursing scrvica for rural people as 1] as I: the cities and towns. A lOcal press . Hm}: “Much of the inspiration for llll’ lip-mg: of the service was derived from 1h. lion]an Institutes which are still very a. m'n‘ promotion". In the first full you .1 V0,»; operation, 1948, nurses made 55H ,[15 0', rural families; in 1951 they made I it call: Badenoch had an address by th» llClam Director of Guelph Collegiate Inslll on tile ‘ subject “What our schools are don i mag.“ good citizens”. Mental Illness. St. George is sponsoring a Blur l’Jonms clinic in co-operation with the l Crm. branch at Brantford. " Sudbury District Institutes prc- rd me, Sudbury Board of Health with a l' than; for use at the beach during the suit -1-. ‘ Hoath Head had rnlk m _ w| _ Lornevilleâ€"Argyle Institute in' ': 1h: Beaverton Institute to present It: “New ‘, Canadian Skit” showing various sir W in.- low when New Canadians come l The ‘ skit included an international pat W111 1 each of fourteen countries being I‘t’ sealed r by a woman in native costume. Ear "ought greetings in her native language and grout sang a Song in that language, conch ; with f “O Canada" and “The Maple Leaf." Maynard recently entertained ll mothers and the girls at the sami ~eliE§ The motto for the programme was. " leafs i teach much that the day cannot kn Norwich had a unique Historical ~ear3l- programme featuring a talk by a IVE 01 i Holland, Mrs. Herman Steinstra, a his V lived in Norwich for twentyâ€"five ye Mrs . Steinstra gave the histories of l 'l‘fi"? ’ Dutch families in the locality and 1 how 5 they were adapting themselves to 1 5' W" ‘ surroundings and making good l .adlilh ‘ citizens. _ Gait had a new Canadian, MI‘S- V Glm' inger, speak on the life of the farm omun in Germany. Union Institute in Lambton took “0"”! way of studying kitchen planning- T " had ‘i a debate. "Resolved that a large k1 ien IS 1., more desirable than a small one". For their January meeting Sour FlingS Institute women met at the home of ai ll\'3lld member to do sewing and mending ' he! and to finish a quilt which they pres‘ red l“ HOME AND (~UN1RY