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The need for more help in this direction is clearly shown by the following
table. which shows how great an amount of their time was spent indoors, and
not amongst the homes of the people :—

Miss M. E. Sheffield began duty as temporary third Woman Inspector on
27th December, and visited 33 cases of measles and made 3 enquiries. This
followed the visits of Dr. Hutchison from the Local Government Board.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Under the Notification of Births Act, 1915, the local authority is
empowered to open centres controlled by a committee, which shall include
women and may include persons not Councillors, and this Committee shall
hold office for a period not exceeding three years. The Council can fix the
amount of expenditure of the ratepayers monies by the Committee, who shall
keep the authority informed as to its expenditure.
Our Voluntary Centre was opened on Tuesday, June 22nd, 1915. Dr.
Rachel Mackenzie is Medical Adviser.
Councillor Sydney J. Sanders, Chairman of the Sanitary Committee,
presides over the Board of Control, and his wife is Honorary Treasurer.
The M.O.H. is on the Board and two representatives of the medical practitioners.
Miss Shiner, second Woman Inspector, replaced Mrs. Benjafield as
Secretary on July 4th.
The Centre is open from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday,
at the Charles Lamb Institute, Church Street, where capital accommodation
has been afforded at a nominal cost, by the kindness of the Rev. Prebendary
Sanders.