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Twenty-two of the common lodging-houses, with accommodation for 589 persons (152 of
them in double beds) are comprised in the " Notting-dale " special area.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
The Work of the Lady Inspectors.-In the first monthly report for the current year the
report of the Lady Inspectors of workshops, workplaces, and laundries, etc., where women are
employed was printed in extenso, as well as the results of special enquiries made by these officers with
respect to Notification of Consumption* and Infantile Diarrhoeal Mortality.!
Inspection of workshops where women are employed, has been thoroughly carried out in
Kensington since 1893, when the late Vestry, upon my recommendation, made the first appointments
of two ladies (now His Majesty's Inspectors of Factories) to supervise the execution of the
provisions of the then existing Factory and Workshop Acts in relation to workshops, etc. The
initiative of the Vestry has been largely followed by Public Health Authorities, within and
without the Metropolis, and ere many years I anticipate that the practice of employing the services
of women in sanitary administration will have become general.

* Vide page 43. †Vide page 44.