[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of] page 128

Lambeth 1908

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FEMALE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
1908 is a year's record of useful wcrk carried out by the
Female Sanitary Inspectors (Miss Dawson, Miss Gamble and
Miss Pearson)* in connection with (a) Factories, Workshops
(Work-places)t, Shops, Out-Workers' Homes, Laundries,
eic., wherein women and girls ar<: employed; (b) Underground
Conveniences (belonging to the Council), and other
Ladies' Sanitary Conveniences (Railway Stations, Hospitals,
etc.); (c) Houses wherein births have occurred, or deaths
amongst infants under 1 year of age, or deaths from infantile
diarrhoea; (d) schools wherein there have been infectious
disease outbreaks; etc.

Table: The year's work, 1908, may be tabulated as fellows :— Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitarv Inspectors during the year1908,and during the preceding six years1902-7(for comparison).

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The year's work, 1908, may be tabulated as fellows :— Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitarv Inspectors during the year1908,and during the preceding six years1902-7(for comparison).

	1908	1906	1905	1904	1903	1902
Workshops† visited and inspected—		1907
(a) Dressmakers	108	228	103	80	157	142
(i) Milliners	18	41	21	14	12	20
(c) Laundries	03	145	17	37	72	70
(d) Tailors	44	57	22	7	22	14
(e) Upholsterers	6	10	1	—	—	1
( f) Dyers	6	3	1	2	2	1
(g) Others	78	98	59	23	48	32
Workrooms inspected	693	1014	330	495	669	325
Workshops† re-inspected	109	273	81	98	163	333
Word rooms re-inspected	143	370	90	113	214	305
Restaurants, etc., re-inspected	373	1081	—	—	87	118
Workshops† workrooms therein measured	475	673	314	265	450	318
Workshops† removed from Register	165	155	32	9	19	29
Workshops†reported to H.M. Inspector	37	63	63	31	19	48
Workshops† repored by H.M. Inspector	43	142	22	13	46	3
Workshops† newly discovered & registered	93	220	‡92	69	152	102
§ Premises visited but no female hands found
to be employed (including Out-workers)	1055	2512	259	135	231	80

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* Miss Gamble was elected on October 3rd, 1901, Miss Pearson, on
December 8th, 1905 (resigned September 30th, 1908), and Miss Dawson, on
September 21st, 1908.
t Workshops include Workplaces.
t Including 13 factories.

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Table: The year's work, 1908, may be tabulated as fellows :— Summary of work carried out by Female Sanitarv Inspectors during the year1908,and during the preceding six years1902-7(for comparison).

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