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'Cleansing, Whitewashing, &c.—There is an increasing
willingness on the part of owners to do necessary work on the
written intimation only, and in some laundries the
whitewashing of the workrooms is now done regularly where
formerly it was left for an indefinite period. It also seems to
me that the chance of a visit from the "Sanitary Lady"
rouses many occupiers to do their share towards keeping
the places clean.
'I could wish that the accumulations of clippings in dressmakers',
and particularly in tailors' workshops could be dealt
with as a nuisance, for they harbour dust and dirt to a large
degree. On complaint of untidiness and dustiness, I am
generally told that "the room is swept daily, but that that morning
the porter, or servant, responsible for cleasing, had
been ill, or had been sent out hurriedly": an explanation
which I can seldom accept unreservedly, as the accumulation
complained of is rarely the product of a single day's work.
'I append a table setting forth the principal items of work
carried out during the year:'