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We suggest that some eight or ten voluntary visitors should
be selected by the Health Society and placed at our disposal;
each of these women should be held responsible for a district
and each should be provided by this Authority with copies of
the report cards on such cases as are thought suitable for reinspection
in the district allotted. The visitor would be
expected to call on each case at intervals of about a month
during the first year of the child's life, and to note on the card
anything she considered worthy of note. These cards should
be periodically handed to Miss Harris, and by her submitted to
the Medical Officer of Health, so that such action might be
taken as would seem desirable or possible.
In addition to this a committee of ladies should be formed
to establish a fund to provide for the immediate assistance of
deserving cases, which could be supported by voluntary contributions
from churches, chapels, and private sources.
(Signed) GEORGE P. BATE,
Medical Officer of Health.
JOHN FOOT,
Chief Inspector.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Memorandum re Conference with Bethnal Green Health
Society on the 20th April, 1910.
At the request of several members, the following brief
Memorandum has been prepared with a view to assisting
members of both the Public Health Committee and the Bethnal
Green Health Society, in their consideration of what is
admittedly a subject of the greatest interest, and of far reaching
importance.
Like other great and important subjects, this question of
apparent excessive infant mortality has attracted a considerable
amount of attention for some few years past, and has also been
the subject matter of an enormous output of oratory of a more
or less inconclusive and impractical character.