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to helping to further elucidate the predisposing causes r.f
this disease; in inspecting schools (25), and the homes
of the scholars, in connection with outbreaks of disease
(more especially measles); and in visiting 1049 private
houses, wherein births have been notified or registered, with
a view to educating the mothers and others concerned now
best to feed' their infants (785 inspections and 264 re-inspections*).
It will be noted, in connection with the inspections and
re-inspections of workshops and workplaces (where women
are employed), that the principal defects found are dirty
workrooms, dirty sanitary appliances, defective flushing
tanks to closets, defective closets and defective dust-bins,
overcowding was only found in 6 cases.

*326 visits were paid to private houses, but no one found at home.