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Factories and Workshops.
Number of inspections of Factories and Workshops 223
„ Notices served 15
„ New workrooms measured 33
Homeworkers' Premises.
Number of inspections 275
„ cases referred to district inspectors 14
Miscellaneous.
Total number of houses visited re Phthisis, Measles,
and Zymotic Enteritis 131
„ Visits paid for various causes, viz., complaints,
and verminous and dirty houses and bedding 575
„ Intimation Notices served 219
„ Statutory 60
„ Cases referred to District Inspectors 264
„ Dustbins supplied 76
„ Accumulations of refuse removed 25
„ Cases where animals were kept in such a state
as to be a nuisance 5
„ Re-inspections (excluding registered houses)
estimated 550
„ Early morning inspections 5
53. Miss Middlebrooke describes the nature of her work as
follows:—
"The work connected with the verminous, dirty and illkept
homes and children seems to become more and more
urgent as the medical inspection at the schools is gradually
requiring a higher standard of cleanliness in the scholars.
Some of the cases are most difficult to deal with, the parents