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The District Board of Works might perhaps appoint
in additional Sanitary lnpector, part only of whose time
would be devoted to the duties of that office, and the
remainder to those referred to in your letter. In that case,
separate salaries should be assigned to each set of duties,
and the time to be allotted to each should be broadly indicated.
If the District Board of Works decide to adopt
this course, the Board will be ready to consider any
proposal that may be made to them on the subject.
The Board think it right to point out, however, that
the work of visiting the homes of parents for the purpose
of giving instructions to mothers in the feeding, care and
nurture of infants, is not only a work of a delicate nature,
but it is one which requires special training of a high order,
if it is to be carried out with any advantage. Such a
training does not come within the experience which a Sanitary
Inspector is necessarily required to obtain, and the
possession of the certificate which the Sanitary Institute
grants to Sanitary Inspectors is no evidence that its possessor
has had any such training.
The Board would observe, further, that if a duly qualified
person is found to undertake the duty, it should be
under the direct control of the Medical Officer of Health.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
JOHN LITHIBY,
Assistant Secretary.
The Clerk to the
Limehouse District Board of Works.
As the proposal could not be carried out in the manner
specified in the Board's resolution upon the subject, it was
decided not to appoint the Health Visitor, but to distribute the
following instructions as decided previously; which has been
done.