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duties of the Sanitary Authority with respect to workshops,
etc.," which was submitted to your Vestry on December 18th,
and accepted as a correct statement of the powers and duties
of the Sanitary Authority under the Factory and Workshop
Acts, 1878 to 1895. How great and onerous those duties are
may be read in that report which is too lengthy for insertion
here. That all Sanitary Authorities may rise to the level of
the obligations imposed upon them by the Legislature is
devoutly to be wished.
WORK OF THE WOMEN INSPECTORS OF
WORKSHOPS, Etc.
In connection with the duties of the Sanitary Authority
under the Factory and Workshop Acts, reference may be fitly
made to the work of the women inspectors of workshops,
workplaces, and laundries, where women are employed, which,
for the year 1894-95, was fully set out in their report submitted
to your Vestry in my third monthly report (March 30th,
1895, page 36). Shortly after that date Miss Squire, whose
term of office had expired, was re appointed by your Vestry
with the status of sanitary inspector, the appointment being
in due course sanctioned by the Local Government Board.
In June, Miss Duncan's first year of office expired, and it was
reasonably expected that she would be re-appointed, in like
manner, to an office the duties of which she had performed
entirely to my satisfaction. Unfortunately the notion got
abroad that one inspector could do the work of the entire
parish, and Miss Duncan's appointment was allowed to lapse.
In her final report, this lady stated as follows:—
"I have worked with pleasure in South Kensington, and have much
cause to speak well of the courtesy, and the willingness to fall in with my
suggestions, of a large majority of occupiers ; if there have been some