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Female
Sanitary
Inspector
Miss Bertha Thurgood was appointed a Sanitary
Inspector to take charge of premises in which women'
young persons or children worked, and also visited
registered houses let in lodgings. At the end of about 14 months
she resigned for the purpose joining a relative in South Africa.
On leaving the Vestry's service she handed in the following
report which gives in detail the work done by her whilst acting
in this parish.
"As this will be the last occasion on which I shall report to
you I would like to give a brief summary of the work done while
I have been in your service:—
I have inspected and registered
17 factories with 900 female workers.
187 laundries (including factory, workshops and domestic
laundries, with 1,800 female workers).
72 dressmakers with 370 ,, ,,
23 milliners ,, 50 „ „
18 tailors „ 40 „ „
20 miscellaneous
workshops ,, 100 ,, ,,
337 3260
I have inspected but kept no register of tailors, domestic
workshops, also of shops where female assistants are employed.
35 Private schools with an attendance of 1,100 pupils have been
inspected and registered.
During the last three months I have constantly visited 50
houses in Orville Road and Green Lane, registered as tenement
houses, giving numerous instructions and intimations, I feel that
it is only by regular and constant inspection that any permanen
good will be done with this class of work.