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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 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]

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Table: Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitary Inspectors during the year1906,and during the preceding four years1902-5 (for comparison).

Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitary Inspectors during the year1906,and during the preceding four years1902-5 (for comparison).

Workshops† No visited and inspected—19061905190419031902
(a) Dressmakers1431038u157142
(b) Milliners8721141220
(c) Laundries11717377270
(d) Tailors422272214
(e) Upholsterers91——1
(f) Dyers31221
(g) Others6659234832
Workrooms inspected703330495669325
Workshopsf re-inspected1888198163333
Workrooms re-inspected25690113214305
Restaurants, etc., re-inspected523——87118
Workshops†: workrooms therein measured360314265450318
Workshopsf removed from Register1183291929
Workshopsf reported to H.M. Inspector ...2763311948
Workshopsf reported by H.M. Inspector...47221346102
Workshopsf newlydiscovered and registered120‡92691523
§ Premises visited but no femalehands found
to be employed (including Out-workers)104125913523180

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Inspector Perrin commenced his duties on February 21st, 1898, vice Inspector Wiggs, who did the work from
August 1892, to November 1897.
* 2 Summonses were dismissed, and \ withdrawn, during 1906.