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An additional Health Visitor - Miss Latham - was
appointed and commenced work in May 1917.
In addition to tnis official work, the Medical
Officer of Health and Health Visitors oo-operated in much
voluntary work done by the Advisory Committee for
Women Munition Workers, the Committee of the Day Nursery
and the Invalid Children's Committee.
• WOMAN SANITARY INSPECTOR'S WORK.
38. The following is a summary 'of tne work done by
Miss Middlebrook:-
Women's Lavatories - Inspections 150
Pound dirty and defective 20
Restaurants and Eating-houses - Inspections 100
Defects and dirty conditions found and
remedied 16
Factories and Workshops - Inspections 247
Notices served ' 9
New workrooms measured 10
Homeworkers' Premises - Inspections 342
Cases referred to District Inspectors 7
Houses let in lodgings - Inspections 357
Houses found dirty or unsatisfactory 187
Visits re Phthisis, Measles, Scabies,
Whooping-cough and Zymotic Enteritis 622
Visits paid for various causes, complaints,
etc. 443
Visits, verminous and dirty houses & bedding 506
Re-visits- estimated 1,000
Cases where bedding was found to be in a
dirty and verminous condition, and
cleansed or destroyed 420
Number of cases referred to District
Inspectors 109
Overcrowding - cases found and abated 43
Notices served re dirty conditions on landlords
and tenants 238
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