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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Summary of Work carried out by the Female Sanitary
Inspectors during 1917.
§Worksbops visited and inspected—
| (a) Dressmakers | 26 |
| (b) Milliners | 3 |
| (c) Laundries | 7 |
| (d) Tailors | 8 |
| (e) Upholsterers | 2 |
| (f) Dyers | 1 |
| (g) Blouses | 23 |
| (h) Ties | 4 |
| (i) Others (e.g.), embroidery, toys, mineral waters, brushes, underclothing, overalls, munitions, &c. | 39 |
| Workshops § : workshops therein measured | 104 |
| Workshops§ newly discovered and registered | 8 |
| * Premises visited, but not inspected, owing to the persons or patients concerned being out or, if employees, being no longer employed | 1645 |
| Female Conveniences visited and inspected— | |
| Public (visits paid) | 263 |
| Private | — |
| Schools visited— | |
| Public (visits paid) | 81 |
| Private | — |
| Special places visited and inspected— | |
| (a) Private Houses † | 2520 |
| (b) Outworkers | 209 |
| Outworkers and Private Houses ‡ re-inspected | 703 |
| Written Intimation and Statutory Notices served | 73 |
| No. of Workshops,§ etc., in which defects were found | 73 |
| No. of Workshops,§ etc., in which no defects were found | 2852 |
| Nuisances referred to M.O.H., for attention by male in-spectors | 5 |
* Births (830), Workshops (45), Out-workers (241), Softools (7), Tuberculosis
cases (443), and special Complaints (79).
† Births (1583), Diarrhoea cases (21), Tuberculosis cases (832). Puerperal
fever (1), Ophthalmia cases (34), and special complaints (49).
‡ Births (143), Diarrhoea cases (1), Tuberculosis cases (425), Out-workers
(7), Ophthalmia cases (120), and special Complaints (7).
§ Workshops include Work-places.