provinces it may be as low as L65 per annum, and rarely rises above
L100. The hours of work and holidays are, as a rule, the same as for
Women Sanitary Inspectors. The difference in salary has proved a great
temptation to Local Authorities in London to appoint Health Visitors
when Women Sanitary Inspectors would have been more useful and
efficient officers. Indeed, it is to be deplored that very few members
of Local Authorities understood the advantages to be gained by the
appointment of the more highly qualified official. The immediate
effect of Section 7 was that several boroughs, having no women
officials, proceeded to appoint Health Visitors; other boroughs, which
possessed Women Sanitary Inspectors, also appointed Health Visitors.
Seven or eight boroughs re-appointed their women officials in the dual
capacity of Sanitary Inspector and Health Visitor so that the work in
those cases went on as before. An indirect effect has been the almost
complete cessation of the appointment of Women Sanitary Inspectors
and the diminution in their number in some boroughs by the lapse of
appointments on resignation or marriage. The inspection of workshops
where women are employed has, in several instances, fallen back into
the hands of Men Inspectors, whose unsuitability for this work first
called women in England into the Public Health Service.

In September 1909 the Local Government Board issued the following
order with regard to Health Visitors in London:--

"Art. 1. Qualifications. A woman shall be qualified to be appointed a
Health Visitor if she

(_a_) is a duly qualified medical practitioner ; or

(_b_) is a duly qualified nurse with three years' training in a
hospital or infirmary, being a training school for nurses and having a
resident physician or surgeon; or

(_c_) is certified under the Midwives' Act, 1902; or

(_d_) has had six months' nursing experience in a hospital receiving
children as well as adults, and holds the certificate of the Royal
Sanitary Institute for Health Visitors and School Nurses, or the
Diploma of the National Health Society; or

(_e_) has discharged duties similar to those presented in the
regulations in the services of a Sanitary Authority and produces such
evidence as suffices to prove her competency; or

(_f_) has a competent knowledge and experience of the theory and
practice of nurture, and the care and management of young children,
of attendance on women in and immediately after c