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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BETHNAL
GREEN
Female Sanitary Inspector.
Memorandum of proposed duties in addition to those laid
down in the Order of the Local Government Board.
(a) To visit under the direction of the Medical
Officer of Health, women who have been recently
delivered, and advise them as to proper care and
feeding of the infants.
(b) To visit houses where children are reported to be
suffering from measles and, where no medical man is in
attendance, to give simple instructions as to care and
nursing of the children.
(c) To visit workshops including those of outworkers'
where women only are employed and report as to
the sanitary conveniences, ventilation and conditions
generally, of the premises.
Sir Shirley Murphy, in a private letter to me,
replied that he was afraid (a) and (b) would be considered
as outside the ordinary duties of a sanitary officer but
that (c) certainly came within the terms of the Order; he
advised than an official communication should be made
to the Local Government Board by the Town Clerk;
this was done and the following reply was received:—