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The Board referred the matter to a Sub-Committee. The
Sub-Committee recommended the Board to adopt the following
which was subsequently done:—
1. That a Lady Sanitary Inspector be appointed for twelve
months, to visit homes where there are infants, to give
instructions when necessary, in the feeding, care and nurture
of infants, and to act generally for this purpose, under the
supervision of the Medical Officer of Health.
2. That copies of the instructions to mothers on the management
of children be furnished to the Local Registrars for
distribution by them whenever infants births are registered,
and in addition, copies be also supplied to persons holding
Mothers Meetings, and that the medical men in the district
be asked if they will undertake to distribute copies in suitable
cases.
3. That the other District Boards and Vestries in the Metropolis
be informed of the action taken by the Board, and that a
copy of the notes referred to, be forwarded to each of them.
Unfortunately, the Registrar General refused to sanction the
distribution of the Instructions by the local registrars, as it
would be quite outside their province.
The following correspondence took place between this Board and
the Local Government Board on the subject: —
Board's Offices,
White Horse Street,
Commercial Road East, E.
28th July, 1899.
Sir,
I am directed to state that the Board of Works for the
Limehouse District proposes to appoint a female Sanitary
Inspector for the District, for a period of twelve months, and
T am to apply for the approval of the Local Government
Board thereto.
The District Board has for some time past given
special attention to the question of the adoption of means to
reduce the present high rate of infant mortality existing in