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Local Government Board,
Whitehall,
19th January, 1906.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant
and to request that the particulars of the proposal of
the Bethnal Green Borough Council in regard to the
appointment of a female Sanitary Inspector in the
Borough may be submitted to the Board in one of the
enclosed forms. The Board gather that it is intended
that the female inspector should act over the whole
Borough. If this is so, it should be stated in the form.
As regards the additional duties (a) and (b) proposed
to be assigned to the officer, I am to state that the
Board sympathise with the desire of the Borough
Council to take steps to reduce the present heavy rate
of infant mortality, but they must point out that it
forms no part of the duty assignable to a sanitary
inspector, as such, to advise mothers as to the proper
methods of infant feeding, or to give instruction as to
the nursing of children suffering from measles, and that
there could be no repayment from the County Fund of
any portion of the salary paid for that work. It will
therefore be necessary for the Borough Council to
assign to the officer a remuneration for this dutv,
separate from the salary paid to her as sanitary
inspector.
At the same time the Board would observe that the
work of advising mothers as to the proper methods of