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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1905

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905

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FEMALE SANITARY INSPECTOR.
1905 is another year's record of good work carried out by the
Female Sanitary Inspector (Miss Gamble*) in connection with
(a) Factories, Workshops (Work-places†), Shops, Out-Workers'
Homes, Laundries, etc., wherein women and girls are employed,
and (b) Underground Conveniences (belonging to the Council)
and other Ladies' Sanitary Conveniences (Railway Stations,
Hospitals, etc.)

Table: The year's work, 1905, may be tabulated as follows:- Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitary Inspector during the year 1905, and during the preceding three years 1902-4 (for comparison).

The year's work, 1905, may be tabulated as follows:- Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitary Inspector during the year 1905, and during the preceding three years 1902-4 (for comparison).

(b) Milliners21141220
(c) Laundries17377270
(d) Tailors2272214
(e) Upholsterers1——1
(/) Dyers1221
(g) Others59234832
Workrooms inspected380495669325
Workshops† re-inspected8198163333
Work rooms re-inspected90113214305
Restaurants re-inspected——87118
Workshopsf: workrooms therein measured314265450318
Workshopsf removed from Register3291929
Workshopsf reported to H.M. Inspector63311948
Workshopsf reported by H.M. Inspector221346102
Workshopsf newlydiscovered and registered192691523
§ Premises visited but no femalehands found to be employed (including Out-workers)25913523180

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* Miss Gamble was elected on October 3rd, 1901, and on December
1905, the Council elected another female inspector (Miss Lucy M. H.
Pearson), her duties to commence on January 1st, 1906.
† Workshops include Workplaces.
‡ Including 6 factories.
§ Houses where the business plate, or the local directory, or advertisements
in newspapers, or other sources of information implied a probability
that females workers would be employed, but at which none were found
at the time of visit.