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Homeworlcers' Premises.
Number of Inspections 364
,, Cases referred to District Inspectors 18
Miscellaneous.
Total number of houses visited re Phthisis, Measles,
Scabies, Whooping-cough, and Zymotic Enteritis 63
Visits paid for various causes, complaints, etc. 356
„ „ Verminous and dirty houses and bedding 836
Re-visits—estimated 1000
Cases where bedding was found to be in a dirty and
verminous condition, and cleansed 250
Total number of cases referred to District Inspectors 157
„ Accumulations of refuse removed 15
„ Early morning inspections 7
,, Overcrowding—cases found and abated 33
Notices served on tenants re dirty conditions 119
Notices served on landlords and tenants—various 154
51. Miss Middlebrooke refers as follows as to her work
re verminous children:—
"We hear a great deal nowadays about the welfare of the
child as a national asset and its relation to the welfare of
the State. This is the day of the child; the air is thick
with theories regarding the child's education and health;
but how many people outside the Public Health service are
aware of the constant and daily warfare being waged at
London's Cleansing Stations with dirt and vermin infecting
the human body, where children whose parents fail to
cleanse their little bodies are taken in hand by public
officials, bathed, their hair cut, heads and bodies dressed'