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The Female Public Conveniences are under constant supervision
by the Female Inspectors, 597 visits having been paid
thereto during 1906.
The Female Inspectors have during 1906 been engaged in visit
ing 262 houses wherein deaths from infantile (summer) diarrhoea
have been reported as having occurred, with a view to helping to
further elucidate the predisposing causes of this disease; and in
inspecting schools (30), and the homes of the scholars, in
connection with outbreaks of disease (more especially measles).
It will be noted, in connection with the inspections and reinspections
of workshops and workplaces (where women are
employed), that the principle defects found are dirty workrooms,
dirty sanitary appliances, defective flushing tanks to closets,
defective closets, and defective dustbins. Overcrowding was
only found in 20 cases—in each instance being slight.
out-workers.
The work commenced by the Female Inspector in 1903, and
continued during 1904 and 1905, connected with the visiting and
inspecting of out-workers' premises and homes (situated within
the Borough of Lambeth), has been further continued during 1906.