White-coated scientists, doctors, chiropodists, dentists, and midwives unite in their mission to eradicate disease and ignorance from Bermondsey.

No germ is safe in Bermondsey! A food inspector subjects a milkman's produce to an 'on the spot' test; children are tested for diptheria; contaminated mattresses undergo sanitation at the 'disinfectant station'. In the days before antibiotics this progressive London Authority specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis, instituting the country's first municipal solarium on Grange Street.

The improved health in Bermondsey because of the Bermondsy Borough Council's
Health Propaganda department. A variety of welfare facilities are shown
including a disinfection station, dental clinics, TB clinics, foot clinics,
post natal examinations and maternity and child welfare centres.