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domestic reasons, she had to resign on 2nd October. For practically
the whole of the year, therefore, we had the services of 2 Health
Visitors only. On the 6th December, we were successful in obtaining
a Visitor to fill the vacancy, and, by the end of the year, were
endeavouring to obtain a 4th Health Visitor.
In the month of December the Second Report of the Nurses
Salaries Committee—one of the Committees appointed under the
Chairmanship of Lord Rushcliffe—was published (Cmd. 6487).
This particular report deals with the Salaries and Conditions of
Service of Health Visitors, in a manner analogous to that of the
Midwives already mentioned. Consideration was being given to this
Report at the end of the year.
(iv) Inspection of Nursing Homes, etc.
Quarterly inspections of the two Nursing Homes, registered by
the Essex County Council under Section 187 of the Public Health
Act, 1936; were again carried out, and investigations on the same
lines as before were made in respect of certain cases, which occurred
throughout the district.
(v) Consultant.
In my Interim Report for the year 1940, I indicated that the
Council had appointed Mr. H. G. Everard Williams, as part-time
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist under the Puerperal
Pyrexia Regulations, 1939, and also to be available in cases where
a practitioner should require assistance for difficulties or complications
arising during pregnancy, or at, or after confinement. During
the present year, it was ascertained that Mr. Everard Williams had
enlisted for military service, so arrangements were made for Mr.
Alan Brews, F.R.C.S., of 36, Wimpole Street, London, and
"Coombe Hill," Priests Lane, Shenfield, to be appointed in his
place for the duration of the war.
The terms of service are similar, and this does not exclude
practitioners from availing themselves of the Emergency Unit,
which is stationed at Oldchurch County Hospital, Romford, and
which is ready to turn out for urgent cases.
(vi) Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939.
Circular 2790 of the Ministry of Health drew attention to the
fact that an Order in Council appointed 1st June, 1943, as the date
on which the Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939, should
come into operation,