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Report of Health Visitor.
Public Health Offices,
Bow Road, E.
January 2nd, 1911.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir —
I beg to present the third Annual Report of my work.
The personnel of the Poplar Health Visiting Association remains
practically unchanged, the number of helpers on the books being fiftyeight,
which includes five doctors, five secretaries, and forty-eight visitors,
a loss of two compared with 1909, but the number of infants visited shews
an increase of 136. Two new "Consultation Days" have been opened
during the year, one at Pern Street School Settlement, and one at
St. John's Schoolroom, Manchester Road, making a total of seven in the
Borough, all in a flourishing condition, as the figures appended show.
The Executive Committee of the Association met six times during the
year, deciding, at their last meeting, on an important change—the introduction
of paid help. A sub-committee elected to deal with the matter,
appointed Miss Dorothy Guest, who at the time of writing has started
work. No new work will be undertaken, but the infants which I have
been visiting at more or less long intervals, will be visited regularly. The
salary for the first six months has been guaranteed by some friends of
Miss Wintour. It is hoped that a concert, which is to be held early in the
new year, will yield a substantial sum towards the next six months.
Once more I should like to take this opportunity of expressing, first,
my thanks to all who have so loyally worked together and made the
Association a power for good (which it undoubtedly is) in the Borough;
second, the hope that their efforts will show no signs of diminution during
the coming year, but rather that the increased success attending their
work will serve to increase their ardour.