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NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK EDITOR‘S Nora: Most Institutes seem to have a program on Health at least once. each year, but the time for this may not commcte with the dates of Health Week given in the follow- ing announcement issued by the Health League of Canada. Where the Health Convener? is allowed to give a brief report at each meeth perhaps she would like to remind the members of Health Week and the information given in the announcement. This makes a timely topic, too, for Institutes having a regular radio broadcast on a local station. This is the Health League’s announcement: REMEMBER THESE DATES JANUARY 29th TO FEBRUARY 4th, 1956 NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK organized by the Health League of Canada in cooperation with Departments of Health and Education across Canada. THE CHALLENGE OF THE HOUR The striking decline in mortality rates in many diseases The wonderful discoveries in medicine and surgery. The effective research in nutrition, in menâ€" tal health, in causes and treatment of diseases. The greater use of preventive treatments. The wide extension of hospital services. Still to be mastered: Cancer, tuberculosis, venereal diseases. heart diseases. diabetes, arthritis. Still to be achieved: Child and maternal health; compulsory pasteurization of milk; general immunization; sanitation of food hanâ€" dling; fluoridation of communal water supplies; dental health; nutrition; gerontology (health in old age). The individual citizen should be active along with voluntary associations and official health departments. local, provincial, national â€" in doing everything possible to perfect Canada’s health. These are some of the subjects we are urging groups to discuss at one of their meetings in the month of February, preferably during Na- tional Health Week. Why not arrange now for a speaker or plan some form of observance in your community? Further details concerning National Health Week will be available shortly. Press and radio will carry messages to the general public. MUSEUM RESEARCH IN ENGLAND Evelyn Frisch Zacks AVING been a former teacher of the Women's Institutes of Ontario under the late George A. Putnam's director- ship, the Institute constitutes one of my great- est interests and loyalties, and has therefore inspired me to carry on with research work for the development of a Rural Pioneer Museum. After many years of research in this field, encompassing both Canada and the United States, I equipped myself three years ago with 18 a pair of comfortable shoes, a collection f authentic pioneer articles and camei.a mod sailed for England, Belgium and Franr‘rflt explore and compare notes concerning i- 0 ads and especially the Motherland. 7 During the three months of research if England three years ago, as well as. on m: visit there this summer, I received the killing, co-operation from everyone. especiallx ‘th Keeper of “The Museum of English > Life," Mr. J. W. Y. Higgs, M.A. and hit at the University of Reading. The educational study of the Enghi-l, ul- tural background and its preservation mic“ gents an inspiring panorama of man‘s ., slut and its link with other civilizations, rc< W} in an unrivaled scope of knowledr». variety of collections in the six hundr. mg Ell'l- E: I l ['3] lat! fifty officially listed museums and ,5, in the British Isles (not including i as}, treasures, country houses and private .3,- tions), some dating back from prehist.‘ .95 to the most modern time. The numerous museums that I sun. H, England were most absorbing, somr n; even quite technical, and to give only l'lel outline of them, one could hardly do “L, to their scope and aims. But the museum coming closest to it His. sion in England, is “The Museum of E 3}, Rural Life” at Reading, a superbly :11. ized Pioneer Museum covering all est“ in Agriculture, Rural Crafts, Domestic 1. .a, and Village Interests, with most object me back from the eighteenth and nineteen in turies. After my return from England to T nth in the usual Institute manner I chi ' shared with the Department in prir. |.:'- missions as well as at an official mew all the information and research done in E ad To my great joy and delight in 1953 "he Central Women‘s Institutes CORVEDUON In» ronto, preliminary steps were taken ,Cl: the establishment of a Pioneer Mus m Institutes, and a resolution was passe ll: favour. Now that there are many Women’s I 'lt members interested in cultural and m values who have increased their “51 through their work of compiling the '1 "‘9 muir Histories, this new project finr: «:ii in a most fortunate position to be ab' hand in hand with all interested in thi- "ill of our country. As a Women's Institute member \‘c' ‘56? I shall be able to do in my humble \\ “L” slogan for “Home and Country“ Will w “is giVing me great inspiration. Also along with my work in E1131: “1" many heartwarming and enriching "'3' ences and contacts, and it is with *“f‘ pleasure that I bring friendly greeting [,“t' Institutes from Lady Binney and Mr- “’9” BF"‘11 0f the Associated Country Womei l' the World, Mrs Margaret Cornell, Pl‘eslll' l OI the National Federation of Women's In I}? and Miss Aubrey J. Smith from H» W broiderers’ Guild. HOME AND COUNTRY