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WOMEN INSPECTORS.
" The period for which Miss Rose E. Squire and Miss
Lucy Deane, the Inspectors of Workshops, See., where women
are employed,were appointed, having expired, I venture to offer
a few remarks on the duties these ladies have carried out
during the past six months—premising that one of them, Miss
Deane, has terminated her connection with the work of the
Parish on her appointment by the Home Secretary to the
even more important office of Government Inspector of
Factories and Workshops. Miss Squire, it will be remembered,
was appointed to the district north of Uxbridge Road,
Miss Deane taking the South District, which covers the
remainder of the Parish south of that road. In the North
District the laundries are numerous: in the South District
the laundries are few, but the businesses of dressmaker,
milliner, and others of like character, are far more numerous
than in the North District. It is not to be supposed that
nearly all of the business premises that should come under
supervision have as yet been discovered and visited; but
already Miss Squire has visited, inspected, and registered 239
premises, comprising 169 laundries, 60 dressmakers, and 10
miscellaneous businesses. Miss Deane has visited, inspected,
and registered 209 premises, comprising 18 laundries, 175
dressmakers, and 16 miscellaneous businesses. For the
purposes of registration, books have been provided with
apppropriate columns for the record of particulars, as follows :
1, Register number ; 2, Date of Registration ; 3, Name of
Street, &c. ; 4, Name of Occupier; 5, Description of Trade
or Business ; 6, Dimensions of (each) work-room, i.e., length,
breadth, height, and cubic feet of space ; 7, Number of gas
burners ; 8, Maximum number of occupants allowed; 9,
Means of ventilation ; 10, Number and position of sanitary
conveniences ; 11, Remarks. The Inspectors were provided
with pocket books ruled and headed to correspond with the
columns in the Register, so as to secure accuracy in making