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Report of Health Visitor.
Public Health Offices,
Bow Road, E.
January 1st, 1912.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,—
I beg to present the fourth Annual Report of my work.
The year has been rather an eventful one in the history of the Poplar
Health Visiting Association. At the close of 1911 the Executive Committee
appointed a paid worker to visit in the Borough, at a salary of
£100 per year. £50 was guaranteed by friends of Miss Wintour's; a
concert held in February realised £21 16s. 10½d.; the remainder was
given by friends. The Committee, however, soon decided that it would
be impossible for them to obtain the funds necessary for making the
appointment a permanent one, and decided to approach the Borough
Council and ask them to do this. The application was afterwards
redrafted and only a donation was asked for. The Borough Council
referred the matter to the Local Government Board, and they replied
that such a donation would be illegal. The Executive Committee then
decided to approach the Public Health and Housing Committee and ask
them to recommend the Borough Council to appoint a second Health
Visitor, who should be entirely under the control of the Borough Council,
and a deputation was appointed to wait on the Public Health and Housing
Committee to explain the views of the Association. That the deputation
was favourably received may be judged by the result—an assistant Health
Visitor has been appointed. The Executive Committee appointed two
delegates to represent the Association at the National Conference for the
Prevention of Destitution held in Caxton Hall in the summer, and they
have affiliated to the newly-formed Association of Infant Consultations
and Schools for Mothers. Six meetings of the Executive Committee
have been held during the year, the average attendance at each being
eight. There have been several alterations in the personnel, the chief
being the resignation of the Hon. Treasurer (the Rev. H. Mosley) and