Louisa Alice Brown

Louisa Alice Brown (22 July 1875 – 21 June 1959) was an Australian factory inspector.

Life Brown was born in 1875 in Adelaide. Her parents were Catherine (born Toohill) and Henry Thomas Brown, a carpenter.

In 1915, she lived with her sister in Sydney for a year. She was employed there as an inspector by the New South Wales Ministry of Labour and Industry. The rules imposed a maximum number of working hours per week (60) and regular holidays were enforced. Girls under fourteen were not allowed to work, but Brown was required to use her discretion. During the depression, she found families in such a poor state that she would arrange help or, in some cases, allow the girl to work because it was the lesser evil. retired due to ill health in 1926 and she was succeeded by Brown in 1930. but she returned to work during the war at the Department of Labour and Industry until 1946. Brown died in 1959 in the Sydney suburb of Waverley.