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to be successful it has been necessary to inspect the homes
of such children, and arrange for the cleansing of those
found to be verminous. Infested bedding at the homes
is destroyed or disinfected.
Miss FitzGerald's duties comprise advising mothers as to
the care of infants, and the prevention of infant mortality,
visiting homes where phthisis exists, and notified cases of
certain infectious diseases, as enteritis, measles, and
ophthalmia neonatorum. During part of the year the
services of an unpaid Health Visitor were obtained.
Miss Middlebrooke's report gives striking testimony to
the improvement in the condition of homes resulting from
increased wages. Her report is as follows:—
Women's Lavatories at Railway Stations, etc.
Number of Inspections 99
„ found dirty and defective 8
Restaurants and Eating-houses.
Number of Inspections 95
,, Defects and dirty conditions found and
remedied 15
Factories and Workshops.
Number of Inspections of Factories and Workshops 261
,, Notices served 11
,, new workrooms measured 17
Homeworkers Premises.
Number of Inspections 369
„ Cases referred to District Inspectors 9
Miscellaneous.
Total number of houses visited re Phthisis, Measles,
Scabies, Whooping-Cough, and Zymotic Enteritis 49