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In the final report by Miss Squire (dated January 1896)
it was stated, and it is a matter for satisfaction, that
there had become manifest, on the part of employers, an
increasing wil'ingness to conform to the requirements of the
law, with which many of them had been more or less unacquainted,
until they were made known by the visits of the
lady inspectors, and by the notices issued by the Sanitary
Committee. In no respect has greater good been done than
by the abatement of overcrowding, and the improvements
effected with regard to the warming of workrooms and the
ventilation of gas iron heaters, &c. The good work begun by
Miss Deane, Miss Squire, and Miss Duncan, has been well
carried 011 by Miss de Chaumont, who has performed her
duties with tact and discretion to my entire satisfaction, and,
what is of more importance, to the satisfaction of the Sanitary
Committee, the body to which has been delegated the carrying
out of the duties which devolve upon your Vestry as the local
authority under the Acts.