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which was a branch of their own; they had the Chairman 

 of the Infirmary, the Chairman of the Children's Care Com- 

 mittee, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, the 

 Chairman of the Education Committee, the Chairman of 

 the Health Committee, the Chairman of the Charity Com- 

 missioners; and in fact they had every social factor repre- 

 sented on the Board. Theirs was a little place with a 

 population of some 48,000, and their problems were all 

 within the scope of the ordinary social worker. One of 

 their main objects was the calling together of little con- 

 ferences to discuss the difficulties they met with in their 

 work. They were just about now to call together a Con- 

 ference on a very difficult subject for a small town, and this 

 was X-ray treatment. They had X-ray diagnosis but not 

 treatment of the children's care cases, and they were calling 

 together a Conference of the various bodies to see if they 

 could not send their X-ray cases to a near town. There 

 was one question, however, which she very much wanted 

 to ask. Nobody at that Conference seemed at all worried 

 by finance, but at Burton it was a very difficult problem. 

 They had excellent papers on all sorts of subjects, and 

 they had had nothing to tell them how to get the money. 

 She would like to know if anybody present got any work 

 from the Board of Guardians or got any grant from the 

 Board of Guardians. It was stated in that excellent little 

 paper, " National Health," that in some foreign countries 

 the Poor Law authorities gave grants for work done; and 

 seeing that the taking of the children when the mothers had 

 to go out to work was of great assistance to the Guardians, 

 she wondered whether the Board made such grants. She 

 was thinking of applying to the Board of Guardians for work 

 and a grant. 



Miss EGGLESTONE (Health Visitor, Hammersmith) said 

 the Conference was very interesting, and they found out so 

 many things which were happening, and she had found 

 many things in Hammersmith which she did not find they 

 had in provincial towns. They had a dining-room for 

 expectant mothers, and convalescent dinners, both ad- 

 ministered by the Kensington Association. This meant 

 that if the mother was not insured, and the husband was 

 out of work, the former could have fourteen dinners. Mrs. 

 Willey had established several dining-rooms in London, and 

 she (the speaker) asked her to establish one in Hammer- 

 smith, which she had done. They supplied a dinner for 2d. 

 if the husband was in work, and if he was out of work 

 and the family was in poverty it was given free. If they 

 were getting a little work they expected them to pay a 



