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of their chief duties is the prevention of overcrowding. It is impossible to have
convictions for overcrowding without making night or early morning visits
Undoubtedly these night visits can be made by Male Inspectors better than by
females.
There are not many restaurant kitchens in the Borough, and as far as the
cleanliness of the kitchens and the quality of the food are concerned, the inspection
can be as efficiently made by Male Inspectors as by females.
Female Health Visitors. — Nine Metropolitan Boroughs appoint Health
Visitors and do not confer on them the status of a Sanitary Inspector.
The duties of Health Visitors may be classified as follows:—
(1) To advise expectant mothers on the management of their health and
as to the influence of ante-natal conditions on their infants.
(2) To follow up the notification of births, and to visit the homes when
doctor and midwife have ceased to attend.
(3) To note conditions of ignorant and improper feeding and to take
steps to correct these evils.
(4) To give advice on the proper feeding of infants; to warn mothers
against premature weaning; to inculcate in particular, the importance
of breast feeding until the teeth appear; and above all, of the
avoidance of the use of foul feeding bottles.
(5) To organise, instruct, and guide in their work the voluntary District
Visitors who assist in health visiting.
(6) To attend mothers meetings for the purpose of giving talks on the
subject to which their qualifications and objects of their appointment
relate.
(7) Inquiries and instruction in the case of non-notifiable infectious
diseases, eg., Measles, Whooping Cough, &c.
(8) To note any insanitary or foul conditions in any of the homes visited
where infants have recently been born, and to report such matters to
the Medical Officer of Health.
(9) Visits to Phthisis cases, give instructions, and again visit to see if
the instructions are carried out.
(10) Inspection of public lavatories for women.