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infants for advice and weighing between 2.30 and 4 p.m.
Miss FitzGerald and the Medical Officer of Health are in
attendance during that time. The Consultation was much
better attended last year than ever before, 1,408 infants
being seen, compared with 460 and 863 in the two previous
years. Further particulars are given in Miss FitzGerahl's
Report.
WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK.
50. There were two Women Sajnitary Inspectors, one of
whom, Miss FitzGerald, is also a Health Visitor.
Miss Middlebrooke originally inspected houses registered
under the by-laws, workshops where women are employed,
restaurants, and eating-houses, re kitchens, etc., public
laivatories, houses where certain infectious diseases (e.g.,
measles) occurred, and houses reported as being verminous
or in a dirty condition. During recent years special efforts
have been made by the school authority to deal with verminous
children, and for these efforts to be successful it has
been necessary to inspect the homes of such children, and
arrange for the cleansing of those found to be verminous..
This work naturally fell on Miss Middlebrooke, and has
grown to such an extent as to take up the greater part of
her time. Consequently she has been for some years unable
to attend to houses registered under the by-laws nor to
measles cases, and it is necessary to leave this work to a
male inspector.
The by-laws deal mainly with the habits of tenants,
especially the housewife's habits, and can consequently be
more effectively enforced by a woman who understands
women's work and difficulties.