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In October, a Report of your Medical Officer of Health upon the Temporary
Shelter was presented to your Health Committee. The Report embodied the
result of enquiries addressed to 42 London, 32 Provincial, 4 Scottish, and 2
Irish Sanitary Authorities, and concluded with reference to St. Pancras.
The St. Pancras Shelter was erected in 1S93 over the coach-houses and
stores on the south-west side of the Disinfecting Station. It consists of four
separate rooms, each containing a complete cooking range and a sink and
draw-taps, also a complete set of cooking, eating and drinking utensils. To
each room is attached a bath-room and lavatory, supplied with hot and cold
water. The occupants are supplied with towels dressing-gowns, and slippers
as required during bathing and the disinfection of their clothing. The four
rooms have a respective capacity of 2,500, 1,000, 1,000, and 1,400 cubic feet,
and open into a corridor provided with two w.c.'s, fitted with modern
apparatus.
The Shelter is made known by a paragraph upon the rate papers, and also
by a paragraph upon the notices sent from the Health Department to each
case of infectious disease, after the notification certificate is received. The
later paragraph is to this effect:—
" The members of any family compelled to leave their dwelling for
the purpose of enabling it to be disinfected by the Sanitary
Authority will be accommodated, free of charge, during the day,
in the Family Shelter in Cambridge Street, on the east side of
and overlooking the St. Pancras Gardens. The Shelter is fitted
with every convenience for use and provided with the necessary
attendance. In order to prevent riding in public vehicles, a
conveyance will be sent to the house to drive the family to the
Shelter, if a request is made."