(a) Notifiable infectious diseases,
such as scarlet fever.
(b) Non-notifiable infectious diseases
such as measles.
(c) The notification of consumption.
(7) Taking samples under the Food and Drugs Acts. (This work is rarely given to women.)
For many of the above duties, women are obviously better fitted than men, but for the following most important group of duties men are practically disqualified by reason of their sex:—
B. Health visiting. Work in connection with the reduction of infantile mortality :—
(1) Notification of Births Act, 1907. Visiting
infants and giving advice to mothers
about the feeding and general management
of young children.
(2) Advising expectant mothers on the
management of their health and as
to the influence of ante-natal conditions
on their infants.
(3) Work in connection with milk depôts and
infant consultations.
(4) Promotion of general cleanliness in the
home and discovery of sanitary defects