sanitation. (Health Visitors holding
official appointments but without these recognised certificates in
sanitation may become associates.)

(2) The Sanitary Inspectors' Association, which is composed of a large
number of Men Sanitary Inspectors and a few Women Sanitary Inspectors.
This is not open to Health Visitors.

There is no approved society for Sanitary Inspectors under the
Insurance Act. The income of the majority of Men Inspectors exempts
them from the operation of the Act, but a large number of Men and
Women Inspectors receiving less than L160 per annum, have joined
the approved society of the National Association of Local Government
Officers.

To sum up, we may say that on the whole the life of a Health Official
is a healthy and suitable one for a woman of average physique; it
demands great activity, with many hours spent out of doors, and
whoever undertakes it must be prepared for surprises and difficulties.
She may find herself in an office staffed entirely by men, with chief,
committee, and council composed entirely of men--indeed everything
looked at from the male standpoint. She either works singly or in
small groups of two or three, except in a few large towns where the
women officials may number from ten to twenty. Thus isolated and
scattered, it is extremely difficult for the Women Health Officials
to form an effective organisation. What is accomplished under one
Authority may have little or no effect upon another.

One condition which presses heavily on many women is the shortness
of the holidays. The work is always arduous, particularly in poor
districts where one is brought face to face with poverty, disease, and
suffering, and from two to three weeks is not sufficient for rest and
recuperation, particularly as the years pass on.

The creation of public opinion and the advent of a greater number of
women on Municipal Councils and Health Committees is greatly needed
to improve the conditions under which women officials work, and to
support their reasonable demands.[2]

[Footnote 1: Full particulars of this can be obtained from the
Secretary, Sanitary Inspectors' Examination Board, Adelaide Buildings,
London Bridge.]

[Footnote 2: The above article considers under the term "Health
Visitors" such women only as are serving under public Municipal
Authorities. Unfortunately, since it gives rise to confusion, the
name is also used in connection with officials privately appointed by
various cha