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WORK OF WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS.
During the year Miss Tones and Miss Stevens have
performed most useful work in connection with the Health
Department. The total number of visits made by these
inspectors amounted to 4,658, reporting 332 nuisances. Many
defects they were able to have remedied without the service of
legal notices. It was, however, necessary to serve 255 intimation
notices and 62 statutory notices, which were all complied with.
In addition to their principal duties, viz., that of visiting
and inspecting workrooms where women were employed, the
homes of outworkers, &c., they made 157 visits to schools
which were of great assistance in our efforts to check and
prevent the spread of infectious diseases; 161 visits were made
to homes in relation to measles, 83 re chicken pox, and 615 re
whooping cough and other non-notifiable diseases.
Under the Factory and Workshop Act, 524 visits were
made to factories, workshops, workplaces and laundries where
women are employed, and 138 to homes of outworkers.
One hundred and eighty visits were made after
deaths of infants under one year and 480 selected homes at
which births occurred. This work was carried out tactfully and
without friction. We frequently received communications
requesting a visit from the women inspectors.
Fourteen visits were made in regard to puerperal fever
and 413 re phthisis homes and deaths, also essentially work for
women sanitary inspectors.
SUMMARY OF VISITS OF WOMEN SANITARY
INSPECTORS.
During the year under review the Women Sanitary
Inspectors have made 4,653 visits throughout the Borough.