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74
Revenue Act, 1903
(and Section 35 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909).
8 certificates were applied for in connection with tenements
(or dwellings) so constructed as to afford suitable separate accommodation
for each of the families inhabiting the same, with the following
results:—
1. Certificates granted conditionally* 8
Offensive Trades.
There are four offensive trades registered, e.g., fat melting
(15, Upper Marsh and Albert Square Mews), and soap boiling
(15, Upper Marsh) and tripe boiling (103, Lambeth Walk).
Summary of Work carried out by the Female Sanitary
Inspectors during 1923. †
Workshops‡ visited and inspected—
(a) Dressmakers 4
(b) Milliners —
(c) Laundries —
(d) Tailors 1
(e) Upholsterers —
(f) Blouses 3
(g) Others (e.g.), lamp shades, wireless instruments,
dressing gowns, drapery, collars, cleaning
material, beadstringing, underclothing, and
weaving and spinning 10
Workshops ‡: workrooms therein measured 24
Workshops ‡ newly discovered and registered 8
§Premises visited, but not inspected, owing to the persons
or patients concerned being out or, if employees, being
no longer employed 1,627
* 49, Jeffrey's Road, 24, 24a, Lunham Road, 148, Wandsworth Road, and
4, Woodland Road, Westow Hill.
†The Council's 2 Female Sanitary Inspectors act also as part-time Health
Visitors, and the above returns are to be read in conjunction with those
given under the summary of child welfare and tuberculosis work carried out
by the whole-time Health Visitors. Miss K. M. Roe's appointment as Health
Visitor was made permanent (with the approval of the Ministry of Health)
on November 1st, 1923.
‡ Workshops include Work-places.
§ Births (1,103), Workshops (5), Tuberculosis cases (16), Private Houses
(359), Outworkers (144).