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WORK OF THE FEMALE SANITARY INSPECTOR.
During 1934 Miss E. H. Sexton, the Council's Woman Sanitary Inspector,
carried out the work summarised in the following table. Her duties are
mainly in connection with factories, workshops, and workplaces where women
are employed, outworkers' premises, the inspection and supervision of dining
rooms, eating houses and restaurants (except restaurants attached to public
houses) and the supervision of aged and infirm tenants. An experienced and
well trained woman Sanitary Inspector is particularly successful in carrying
out such duties. Miss Sexton also carries out a large number of infectious
disease enquiries requiring the expert knowledge of a trained nurse.
Notices
Visits. Served.
Factory Bakehouses 4 2
Food Factory 1 —
Other Factories 125 7
Workshops 188 4
Workplaces 240 12
Outworkers' premises 168 4
Restaurants 54 —
Dining Rooms and Eating Houses 208 17
Eel and Pie Shops 31 6
Cooked Meat Shops 68 7
Other Food Premises 14 —
Public Conveniences for Women 36 —
Premises occupied by Foster-Mothers 76 —
Common Lodging Houses 12 —
After complaint 86 42
Infectious disease enquiries 795 21
Infirm and dirty tenants 248 1
Verminous school-children 15 1
Other inspections of dwelling houses 106 1
Drains tested 1 l