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Lambeth 1910

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

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FEMALE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
1910 is a year's record of work carried out by the two
Female Sanitary Inspectors (Miss Dawson and Miss
Gamble)* in connection with (a) Factories, Workshops,
(Work-places), Shops, Out-Workers' Homes, Laundries,
Restaurants, etc., wherein women and girls are 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 nave
been infectious disease outbreaks; etc.
• Miss Gamble was elected on October 3rd, 1901, and Miss Dawson on
September 21st, 1908, vice Miss Pearson, resigned.
† Workshops include Workplaces.
$ Including houses where the business plate, or the local directory, or
advertisements in newspapers, or other sources of information implied a
probability that female workers would be employed, but at which none were
found at the time of visit (including 50 restaurants, 10 schools, 390 outworkers,
422 births, 78 workshops and 107 others during 1910.

The year's work, 1910, may be tabulated as follows :— Work carried out by the two Female Sanitary Inspectors during the year1910,and during the preceding three years1907-9(for comparison.).

1910190919081907
Workshops† visited and inspected—
(a) Dressmakers21631610885
(b) Milliners3951184
(c) Laundries1631766328
(d) Tailors59604415
(e) Upholsterers27561
(f) Dyers456
(g) Others1241037832
Workrooms inspected10851487693311
Workshops† re-inspected14012310985
Work rooms re-inspected201111143114
Workshops† workrooms therein measured436482475313
Workshops† removed from Register7035216537
Workshops† reported to H.M. Inspector35363736
Workshops† reported by H.M. Inspector924395
Workshops† newly discovered and registered95104 93100
§ Premises visited but no females found employed, or no workers, &c.13671712 10551471