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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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Table: Summary of Work carried out by the Women Sanitary Inspectors during 1938.

Summary of Work carried out by the Women Sanitary Inspectors during 1938.

Factories visited and inspected645
,, workrooms therein measured6
„ newly discovered and registered6
Premises visited, but not inspected, owing to the persons
or patients concerned being out, or, if employees,
being no longer employed456
Women's Conveniences visited and inspected, etc.
(visits paid)964
Special places visited and inspected :
(a) Restaurants395
(b) Housing enquiries560
(c) Outworkers180
(d) Complaints, Infectious diseases, etc67 -1,202
Re-inspections:
(a) Restaurants74
(b) Housing enquiries53
(c) Outworkers3
(d) Complaints, etc19 -149
Written intimation and nuisance notices served268
Visits to factories in which defects were found305
Visits to factories in which no defects were found1,734
Nuisances referred to M.O.H., for attention by male
inspectors6
Particulars of Defects found by Women Inspectors.
Factories:—
Workrooms :
Dirty, etc2
Defective or dirty:
Yards, floors, roofs, windows, walls and ceilings, rain water pipes, sink wastes, or premises generally80