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Government Board to the effect that a Committee,
appointed to consider the further enlistment of male
employees in retail distributing trades, had complained
that difficulties had arisen in the case of smaller shops
where women had replaced enlisted men, by reason of
the requirements of the Public Health Law as to separate
sanitary accommodation for the sexes.
The Board pointed out that, whilst such requirements
could not be dispensed with, yet in many cases
satisfactory temporary arrangements could be made
which would secure the object in view without involving
employers in serious additional expenditure.
The Public Health Committee expressed their desire
that the law should be administered in Bethnal Green with
the least possible friction, and that no hindrance should
be placed upon any shopkeeper who was willing to allow
his male assistants to join the Army; but that, whilst this
was so, the Committee emphasised the fact that in no
case would arrangements be sanctioned which would
defeat the purpose of the law in this matter.
INQUESTS.
The total number of inquests held during the year
was 201. Thirteen persons committed suicide and sixtyone
died violent or sudden deaths.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS,
1890 to 1903.
Applications during the year for my certificate to
obtain exemption from Inhabited House-duty were made