Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 :—
1910 | 1909 | 1908 | 1907 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Workshops† visited and inspected— | ||||
(a) Dressmakers | 216 | 316 | 108 | 85 |
(b) Milliners | 39 | 51 | 18 | 4 |
(c) Laundries | 163 | 176 | 63 | 28 |
(d) Tailors | 59 | 60 | 44 | 15 |
(e) Upholsterers | 27 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
(f) Dyers | 4 | 5 | 6 | — |
(g) Others | 124 | 103 | 78 | 32 |
Workrooms inspected | 1085 | 1487 | 693 | 311 |
Workshops† re-inspected | 140 | 123 | 109 | 85 |
Work rooms re-inspected | 201 | 111 | 143 | 114 |
Workshops† workrooms therein measured | 436 | 482 | 475 | 313 |
Workshops† removed from Register | 70 | 352 | 165 | 37 |
Workshops† reported to H.M. Inspector | 35 | 36 | 37 | 36 |
Workshops† reported by H.M. Inspector | 9 | 2 | 43 | 95 |
Workshops† newly discovered and registered | 95 | 104 | 93 | 100 |
§ Premises visited but no females found employed, or no workers, &c. | 1367 | 1712 | 1055 | 1471 |