SPREADERS OF DISEASE.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1919, Page 16

SPREADERS OF DISEASE.

Criticism of over-inspection and of thri unsuitability of some of the persons who undertake the work of sick visiting was made at a health conference of local authorities at the Royal Sanitary Institute, • London. Professor Urwich epoko of a lady— whose name ho could not mention because eoine of her descendants were so well known—whose custom it was to visit the sick wearing a fur coat. She would sit besido a scarlet fever patient and then perhaps drop in. at a house where thero were a number of children sitting or playing. When remonstrated with, she said she could not see that it mattered at all, "because if it was the will of Providence that the disease should spread it would do so, and it could not be helped." Professor Bostook Hill said they must bo careful not to overdo inspection. Ho knew where there were in one day no fewer than four different health visitors at one house. Was it any wonder that tho last visitor had the door slammed in I her face?