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Payment to be £1 1s. 0d. for each half-day's attendance.
3. An additional Woman Inspector and Health Visitor
(Salary, £120 to £140).
4. Premises in East Plumstead for a Consultation.,
Rent, £20; furniture, £50; lighting, cleaning, printing,
&c., £10.
Half of all expenses will be repaid by the Treasury, so
that the annual cost to the Borough Council will be
£112 10s. 0d. for salaries, £15 for premises, and £25
capital expenditure.
It is greatly to be hoped that before long it will be
possible by means of hygienic advice to expectant mothers
and also by means of medical treatment where necessary,
to avert the number of still births and deaths from immaturity.
(Further reference is made to the subject in Miss
FitzGerald's report.)
WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK.
58. There are two Women Sanitary 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 lavatories
for women, 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