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women to assist in sanitary administration, by inspection etc.
of places where persons of the female sex are employed, has
not hitherto been followed by other sanitary authorities to the
extent which might have been anticipated. Some progress,
however, has been made, and there is ground for hoping that
the practice will in time become general, whether by legislative
compulsion or otherwise. As to the value and success of the
movement in this parish, there can de no question: it has long
since passed out of the experimental stage. The duties of the
sanitary authority in this department of administrative work,
were set out in a report adopted by the Sanitary Committee,
printed in the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health
for 1896 (pages 96-103 inclusive), and accepted by your Vestry
as a correct statement of the powers and duties of the Sanitary
Authority as defined by law. Miss de Chaumont's report is as
follows:—
"I have the honour to present a report of the work done
in the Northern and Southern Districts of the parish during
the year 1898.