| Description Of Item | A number of items in these folders have the reference 1/7/0 which may be an old Edinburgh City Council file reference. Includes Directions for the Voluntary Health Visitors produced by the Edinburgh Public Health Department, 1913; Some Notes on the Edinburgh Voluntary Health Workers Association, c1948; report of the inaugural meeting of the Voluntary Health Visitors, 1908; report of the Voluntary Health Visitors, 1912; excerpt from minute of meeting of Voluntary Health Visitors, 1932; report of the sub-committee on babies' open air playroom, 1915; report on Toddlers' Playgrounds; agreement between the City of Edinburgh and Voluntary Health Visitors dealing with open air playrooms, 1917; list of members of the Voluntary Health Visitors giving their name, district and supervising health visitor; report by Medical Officer of Health as to Edinburgh Scheme for Maternity Service and Child Welfare, 1916; article on child welfare in Scottish Women's Temperance News, 1924; letter from Catherine Maxwell to Dr Finlay enclosing reports on health visitors; address by Councillor Mrs Somerville to the Scottish Mother's Union, 1924; articles on the Toddlers' Playground Movement in Edinburgh by Margaret Brotherston and E A Cuthbertson, extracts from the 1908-1912 reports of Edinburgh Council of Social Service compiled in 1958, notes on Dr Brotherston and the Federation of University Women and a letter from Margaret Brotherston to Tait announcing her retirement as secretary of the Voluntary Health Workers, 1958; annual report of the Voluntary Health Workers with a history of the association, 1958; article on overcrowding by Councillor Somerville in the Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1926; printed letter by A Maxwell Williamson, Medical Officer of Health, to accompany the 1911 annual report of the Voluntary Health Workers; Future Developments of Maternity and Child Welfare Schemes by Councillor Somerville, 1926; 'Wise and Unwise Economy' by Councillor Somerville; newspaper cuttings; correspondence on the records of the Edinburgh Toddlers' Playcentre Association, 1977; report of meeting of the General Council of the Association of Infant Welfare and Maternity Centres; constitution of the Voluntary Health Workers, 1916; photograph of the Edinburgh Voluntary Health Workers Association in the Edinburgh City Chambers Council Chamber, 1958 with all names captioned; photograph of Voluntary Health Workers outside the City Chambers, 1950s; photograph of toddlers at one of the playcentres with Lady Fenton, Mr Ivory, Dr Brotherston and others; photographs of children and nurses at the High Street toddlers group, c1915; and seven colour slides of toddlers playcentes at Tron Square, Oxgangs, Citadel Leith, Johnston Street Leith, Hendry Street, Bedford Crescent and Allan Street, Stockbridge. |