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(2) Outworkers' premises.
(3) Tenement houses.
(4) Laundries.
(5) Day Schools and Restaurants.
In 14 Boroughs, the officers seem to combine the duties of the Female Sanitary
Inspector and the Female Health Visitor.
(1) Factories and Workshops.—The number of workshops in the Borough
of Stepney where women only are employed is 172, employing 957 women.
The number where men and women are employed is 1,961. The number of
women employed in these is 8,026.
(2) Outworkers' Premises.—The number of outworkers' premises where women
are employed is 1,404.
The number of outworkers' premises where men and women are employed is
156.
The total number of women employed is 1,526.
The number of workshops (including laundries) where women are solely
employed is comparatively small and the duty of visiting them by a special
inspector would not be economical, nor would the inspection be more efficiently
done than it is at present. The workshops are scattered throughout the Borough
and much time and labour would be involved if special visits were paid to them.
At the present time, the Inspector does not make special journeys for the purpose
of inspecting these workshops. When other duties take him to a street, he inspects
the workshops situated in the neighbourhood.
It is doubtful if any advantage would accrue from the appointment of a special
Inspector for the outworkers' premises. These premises are frequently tenement
houses, and as such, are visited by one of the Inspectors for Houses-Let-in-Lodgings,
as well as by the District Inspector. Further overlapping of duties would only
lead to complications in the serving of notices. The difficulty arising from the
service of notices by different persons could be obviated by limiting the duties
of the Female Inspector to the inspection only, and leaving the service of the
notices to the District Inspector.
(3) Tenement Houses.—There are already two Male Inspectors whose duties
are limited to the supervision of Tenement Houses or Houses-Let-in-Lodgings. One