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Orders made under the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901, 1906.
Further By-laws made by the London County Council in pursuance
of the Provisions of Section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act,
1882, and Section 16 of the Local Government Act, 1888, for the
Good Rule and Government of London. 1906.
Regulations for exclusion of children from School on account of
Infectious Disease, 1906.
Regulations as to means of escape in case of fire, 1906.
Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1907.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1907.
Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907.
Butter and Margarine Act, 1907.
Vaccination Act, 1907.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907.
Order of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1907.
London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907.
London County Council's By-laws as to Offensive Businesses, 1907.
Regulations under Diseases of Animals Act and the Glanders and Farcy
Order, 191)7.
Children Act, 1908.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
Regulations of the Local Government Board as to Tuberculosis, 1908.
Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1909.
On the 23rd February, 1910, your Council accepted the resignation of Miss
Blanche Gardiner, B.A., on her appointment as Superintendent of the Staff
of Health Visitors of the City of Birmingham. During Miss Gardiner's term
of office in St. Pancras, from October, 190.), to February, 1910, she instructed
a large number of Voluntary Visitors, and utilised their services for the benefit
of the Borough. After a number of months of service, varying from a
minimum of three to a maximum of six, many of these ladies obtained official
posts or responsible employment elsewhere, and this is a convenient opportunity
for reviewing the work done in this direction.
The work of Public Health Authorities divides itself mainly into two kinds,
the one dealing with the condition of the environment (places), and the other
with the health of individuals and families (persons). The former is mainly
statutory, and the latter mainly adoptive. Few of the statutory powers fall
into the province of women, but nearly all the adoptive powers come within
their province.
The statutory powers embrace: (a) the inspection of factories, workshops,
and workplaces where women are employed; (b) the inspection of outworkers'
premises, domestic workshops, and home workplaces ; and (c) the
inspection of restaurant kitchens and eating bouses where women are
employed. The adoptive powers embrace (1) the Notification of Births Act
and the prevention of infant mortality; (2) the notification of pulmonary
tuberculosis and the prevention of consumption, and of susceptibility thereto;
(3) the notification from schools of verminous children, and the cleansing of
the children, their bedfellows, clothing, and bedding ; and (4) the notification
from schools of the non-certifiable infectious diseases, e.g., measles.