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WORK OF WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS.
During the year Miss Jones and Miss Moynihan have
performed most useful work in connection with the Health
Department. The total number of visits made by these
inspectors amounted to 4,828, reporting 290 nuisances. Many
defects they were able to have remedied without the service of
legal notices. It was, however, necessary to serve 201 intimation
notices and 42 statutory notices, which were all complied with.
In addition to their principal duties, viz., that of visiting
and inspecting workrooms where women were employed, the
homes of outworkers, &c., they made 241 visits to schools
which were of great assistance in our efforts to check and
prevent the spread of infectious diseases; 704 visits were made
to homes in relation to measles, 221 re chicken pox, and 409 re
whooping cough and other non-uotiliable diseases.
Under the Factory and Workshop Act, 669 visits were
made to factories, workshops, workplaces and laundries where
women are employed, and 210 to homes of outworkers.
Three hundred and fifteen visits were made after
deaths of infants under one year and 934 selected homes at
which births occurred. This work was carried out tactfully and
without friction. We frequently received communications
requesting a visit from the women inspectors.
Seventeen visits were made in regard to puerperal fever
and 224 re phthisis homes and deaths, also essentially work for
women sanitary inspectors.
SUMMARY OF VISITS OF WOMEN SANITARY
INSPECTORS.
During the year under review the Women Sanitary
Inspectors have made 4,828 visits throughout the Borough.