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Miss Guest has paid in nine months 616 first visits and 2,740
re-visits, making a total of 3,356 visits, and these in the poorest
streets of the Borough.
The Public Health Visiting Association, therefore, desires to
urge upon the Committee the desirability of recommending the
appointment of another Health Visitor, not only on humanitarian
grounds, but on the certainty that the continuance of this work will
bring in a large and increasing return of the best kind to the
Borough.
To remove a possible misconception I am desired to add that
the Public Health Visiting Association, while willing, of course, to
co-operate in every way with the new officer, if appointed, recognise
that she would be responsible solely to the Council and directed in
her work solely by the Medical Officer of Health and the Public
Health Committee.
A small deputation of the Public Health Visiting Association
hope to attend the meeting of your Committee on Tuesday, October
24th, and will be most grateful if you will allow them to place their
views before you.
I am, yours truly,
(Signed), (Miss) KATHLEEN WINTOUR,
Chairman, Executive, P.H.V. Assoc.
A deputation, comprising Mrs. Sydney Buxton, Mrs. R. H. Green,
Dr. Ethel Lamport, Miss K. Wintour and Mr. H. Martley, introduced by
Councillors H. R. Barge and R. H. Green, J.P., waited upon the Public
Health and Housing Committee in support of the representations of the
Health Visiting Association. It was stated that on the Isle of Dogs
provision is made for support of the work and employment of a trained
visitor by voluntary means, but in the remainder of the Borough the
Association is unable to continue to collect the necessary funds for
employment of a qualified visitor, or to depend upon voluntary help ; and
they considered it essential a second official Health Visitor should be
appointed to work with Miss Hall as Miss Guest had hitherto done.
The Committee were strongly impressed with the value of the work
accomplished by the Association and the Health Visitors, as shewn in the
reduction of the rate of infantile mortality in the Borough. The deaths
of infants under one year in 1908 were 123-83 per 1,000 births; while in