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formed on right lines with workers willing to learn and who
understand the nature of the problem and the vastness of the
work to be done, could do most excellent work in this Borough.
Such an association or society as I have in my mind
should be formed of women workers, ready and willing to visit
the cases and render assistance in the homes and to follow them
up day by day during the critical periods and less frequently
later on.
The visitors should be women of experience, good tact and
sound common sense, capable of teaching and advising in a
non-official conversational kind of manner the mothers and
others with whom they come in contact. They should be
willing and able to attend instruction classes, capable of carrying
out instructions and giving directions in the practice of a
simple system of personal and domestic hygiene in the homes
visited and, where necessary to do so, to see that proper
temporary assistance is provided.
Above all, such visitors should never play "policeman" in
any direction, but should deal tactfully and discreetly with
whatever information they may acquire in the course of their
visits.
Such an association could be well directed by a small
committee of ladies with, as a suggestion, the Mayoress for the
time being at its head, and the whole should be under the
direction and at the disposal of the Public Health Authority
acting by its chief adviser, the Medical Officer of Health.
Such a society, officered by its Committee, should direct
its early efforts to enlisting a sufficient band of workers to cover
the entire district in such a manner that any and every case
sent them by the Medical Officer of Health or official Woman
Sanitary Inspector should have proper care and attention so
long as may be necessary, and a shoit report of results and
particulars supplied to the Medical Officer of Health,