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OFFICES.
The complaints which have been received during the past year with regard
to insanitary conditions in offices in which women clerks are employed may be
grouped under the following headings:—
Absence of any sanitary accommodation.
No separate sanitary accommodation.
Unsuitable or defective sanitary accommodation.
Offices overcrowded.
Offices in dirty condition.
These have all been investigated, and the defects found were, in every
instance, remedied or are now in hand.
UNDERGROUND CONVENIENCES FOR WOMEN.
The usual inspections of underground conveniences have been carried out.
An additional convenience for women has been opened in Eastcheap, and
there are now 14 in the City, situated at:—
Aldersgate Street (North).
Aldersgate Street (South).
Aldgate.
Bishopsgate Street Without.
Circus Place (Finsbury Circus).
Eastcheap.
Farringdon Street (North).
Farringdon Street (South)
(Ludgate Circus).
Golden Lane.
Guildhall Buildings.
Holborn.
Minories.
Upper Thames Street (near London
Bridge).
West Smithfield.
LADIES' WAITING ROOMS AT RAILWAY STATIONS.
The usual inspections of Ladies' Waiting Rooms at Railway Stations have
been carried out. The defects found were all of a minor character, and were
promptly remedied on being brought to the notice of the Railway Companies
concerned.
CHILDREN ACT, 1908.
This Act, which received the Royal Assent on the 21st December, 1908,
came into operation on the 1st April, 1909. An abstract of the Act will be
found in your Medical Officer's Annual Report for last year.
The Corporation, as the Local Authority under Part I. of the Act dealing
with Infant Life Protection, delegated its powers to the Sanitary Committee,
and at the meeting of the Court of Common Council on the 4th March, 1909,
Miss A. J. Safford and Miss M. M. Pole, two of your Women Sanitary