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PREMISES AND INSPECTIONS.

The numbers employed are approximate only and probably understate the
case. They refer to women only, with the exception of about 120 men working
in their own homes.
During the year enquiries into the following questions have been made: —
The employment of married women in factories and workshops of the
district.
The living accommodation available for working women.
The cleansing of schools.
The voluntarily notified cases of consumption, with special reference to
industrial conditions affecting the disease.
A separate report on consumption appears in that section of your Report
dealing with the question.
Throughout the year I have given much attention to the connection of the
Children's Baths and the Schools. The Baths have done excellent and much
appreciated work for the children of the Borough. Every effort is made that
the treatment may be as effectual, as educational, and as kindly as possible,
and there can be no doubt that much permanent good is done. The improvement
effected could be more readily maintained if some system of facilitating
access to the ordinary Baths, after the children have been thoroughly cleansed,
could be devised; and, with the co-operation of the Children's Care Committees,
this ought to be possible. An arrangement of this kind, by preventing
the relapse into dirty conditions, which is frequently a result of lack of bathing
accommodation in the child's home, would reduce the number of recurring
cases requiring treatment at the Cleansing Baths.
Registers have been kept for the different classes of premises inspected.
Notices and notifications have been sent out as required.
I append the statistical statement desired by the Home Office.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
M. E. Bibby,
Sanitary Inspector of Workshops (Women).