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in attending mothers' meetings that are held in connection with
the various churches and chapels, with a view to instructing the
present voluntary workers ill domestic hygiene. The need for
mothers (and others) being educated in the proper feeding and
management of infants is admitted by all, and an opportunity
will be afforded when the Notification of Births Bill becomes an
Act.
The Council agreed on June 13th, 1907, to the temporary
appointment for one year as an experiment of a Female Health
Visitor at a salary of £80 per annum with nurse's uniform—the
duties of such Health Visitor to be as follows:—
1.—Visiting houses wherein births are notified, or
registered;
2.—Visiting houses wherein deaths of children under one
year of age have been registered;
3.—Visiting and teaching mothers (and others) the simple
laws of domestic hygiene, temperance and thrift;
4.—Attending meetings as may be required, for the purpose
of instructing voluntary workers in domestic hygiene
and economy.
It was further decided to select by advertisement for the
position an educated woman, aged 25 to 35 years, single or
widowed, properly qualified in nursing and sanitary knowledge,
as shewn by the possession of a certificate or
certificates, in nursing, midwifery and sanitary knowledge. In
reply to this advertisement, 14 applications were received, and
the Council at its meeting held on 3rd October, 1907, elected
Miss Hilda Hewitt Lawrence, of the Education Department,
Corporation of Lincoln, as Female Health Visitor for the Borough
of Lambeth for a temporary period of 12 months—her duties to
commence on January 1st, 1908.
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