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So far as this Borough is concerned there are—
(i.) Two paid official health visitors and a lady sanitary
inspector;
(ii.) The Poplar Infant Care Association which has, I believe,
two paid qualified health visitors and numerous voluntary
helpers; and
(iii.) The College of St. Katharine, which is being established
in this Borough by H.M. Queen Alexandra, to which will be
attached a principal and six qualified health visitors who are
also certificated midwives. It is hoped that this College will
be in full working order by 1st proximo.
I have interviewed the Principal of the College and have practically
arranged with her for the visitation of the expectant maternity
cases as mentioned above; I have also arranged with the Senior
Health Visitor employed by this Council in respect of the visitation
of such cases. If this scheme be successful—as no doubt it will be—
I see no reason why all expectant maternity cases should not be
dealt with.
With regard to St. Katharine's College, it is the intention of
H.M. Queen Alexandra that their health visitors shall visit cases
practically until such time as the children are able to attend school,
and in the event of diarrhoea occurring the health visitors will call
many times each day.
In view of this visitation of cases of diarrhoea, I am asking my
Committee at their next meeting to recommend the Council to make
diarrhoea a notifiable disease in this Borough during certain months
of the year.
In short, the scheme which has tentatively been arranged and
which will be discussed further by a member of the Poplar Infant
Care Association and myself, on Friday, is as follows :—
(a) The school care committees, who feed infants, will
ascertain whether mothers are expecting to be confined, and the
respective care committees will forward names and addresses
of such cases to me at these offices;
(b) A card index system will be used here and the cases
resident in the sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow will
be distributed respectively to the Poplar Infant Care Association,
St. Katharine's College, and this Department, such cases being
undertaken by those bodies.