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(A) and (B) work with sanitary authorities though 

 not under them. The adoption of the Notification 

 of Births Act has called many of class (C) into exist- 

 ence. In connection with these societies milk or 

 other food is sometimes given or sold to mothers 

 and infants. No one denies the importance of right 

 and sufficient feeding, but experts differ as to the 

 advisability of giving it and the best method of sell- 

 ing it. As the work of instruction is not dependent 

 on feeding, in quoting the costs of various societies 

 I omit the money spent in food. Huddersfield is the 

 best example of class (C). There a few experts direct 

 an army of amateur visitors with excellent results. 

 The greatest example of class (A) is the Glasgow 

 Infant Health Visitors' Association, which had 4,716 

 infants on its books, 16 branches, nearly 300 voluntary 

 workers, and a yearly expenditure of ^25. Its work 

 is mainly done by visitors, but it has lectures, infant 

 consultations, mothers' restaurant, and free vaccination. 

 Manchester School for Mothers, class (B), has 2,057 

 infants, 113 voluntary workers, four centres and an 

 expenditure of ,1,480; it pays six expert assistants. 

 It has more meetings and fewer visits, not so much 

 feeding, no vaccination. Leeds, class (B), comes next 

 in size with 1,412 infants, six branches and an ex- 

 penditure of ,"700; 80 voluntary workers. Nottingham, 

 class (C), 1,290 infants, four branches, consultations, 

 lectures and visiting ; it has three offices paid by 

 the corporation and a committee, appointed by thern. 

 Then comes Birmingham, classes (A) and (B), with 

 four branches and the usual activities. Oxford Health 

 and Housing Association, class (A), does not give its 

 numbers ; it has weighing centres, but works mostly 

 through voluntary visitors ; it has reduced the Oxford 

 rate of infant mortality to 69 per 1,000. 



London health societies come next in point of 

 numbers Marylebone first and then St. Pancras 

 (the pioneer society in all this class of work), and 



