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Homeworkers' Premises.
Number of Inspections 360
,, of Cases referred to District Inspectors 40
Total number of Houses visited re Phthisis,
Measles, and Zymotic
Enteritis 94
,, Visits paid for various causes,
viz., Complaints, and verminous
and dirty houses
and bedding 270
,, Intimation Notices served 361
,, Statutory „ „ 103
,, Cases referred to District
Inspectors 188
,, Dustbins supplied 91
„ Accumulations of refuse
moved 17
„ Cases where animals were
kept in such a state as to
be a nuisance 7
54. Miss Middlebrooke describes the nature of her work in
dirty houses as follows
“ In visiting the houses let in lodgings, not only is attention
paid to the condition of the walls, ceilings, floors, roofs, window
sash-frames, and other structural defects, but an endeavour is
also made to educate the tenants to a higher standard of cleanliness
and decency of living. Efforts are made to induce those
housewives who are inclined to be slatternly to be orderly and
methodical in their houses. Many women are under the impression
that, so long as they wash their floors, the rest of the room
does not matter in the least. They are apparently blind to the
cobwebs on the walls and ceilings, the paint-work coated with