Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904
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reasonable time as is specified in the notice to comply with
the bye-law has failed to comply with the bye-law within the
time so specified.
The Work of the Lady Sanitary Inspectors.
The work of each of the two lady sanitary inspectors, so
far as it admits of tabulation, is set out in the following tables.
Miss Dawson, who entered upon her duties in June, 1902, is
chiefly concerned in the supervision of workshops, etc., where
female labour is employed, but, as will be seen from the
following table, she does much important work in other
directions. The following is a summary of Miss Dawson's
operations :—
New workshops inspected and registered 59
Workshop re-inspections 606
New workshops notified to H.M. Inspector 53
Cards distributed showing number of persons
legally employed in workrooms 91
Houses visited which on enquiry were found not
to be workshops 50
Workplace inspections 165
Inspections of out-workers' premises 343
Visits to consumers of Council's milk 584
Premises inspected after infantile deaths 219
Premises re-inspected after infantile deaths 184
Visits to premises to which children recovered
from infectious disease returned 297
Cases of puerperal fever investigated 4
Other inspections 6
Written intimations issued 420
Statutory notices issued 240
Inspections of houses let in lodgings 77
Re-inspections of houses let in lodgings 227
Houses visited during house-to-house inspection 103
Re-inspection of such houses 144