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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of Westminster 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: The following table gives a comparative statement of the above work during the past seven years:—

The following table gives a comparative statement of the above work during the past seven years:—

1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.
Premises5816679618401,0671,287841979
Booms9351,1771,6271,4551,5681,8651,284] ,449
Articles disinfected29,10734,70347,86536,11531,91549,84326,85026,264
Articles washed------514782
Articles destroyed521511951,6602331861,651496
Books disinfected1052363136557281595266
Number admitted to shelters396155611

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Cleansing of Persons.—The Guardians deal with the frequenters
of their casual wards, who are the persons most troubled with
vermin, at their own establishments, and the Education Committee
had in use an apparatus at Pultenev School. The names of children
treated at this school were to be forwarded to me, so that the homes,
bedding, &c., might be examined and, if necessary, cleansed, but no
names were received from school authorities during the year. Two
children were reported to be in a verminous condition, and were
visited at their homes until the parents had cleansed them. Eight
rooms and 595 articles were fumigated on this account. Nineteen
persons have been treated at the cleansing station and their clothing
fumigated (161 articles).
Verminous School Children.—The City Council has entered into an
agreement with the County Council, as an experiment for one year, for
the cleansing of school children.
The proposed agreement provides inter alia for the use by the
County Council of the Cleansing Station, Grosvenor Eoad, for the purpose
of cleansing the persons and clothing of verminous children who
may be in attendance at public elementary schools provided or maintained
by the County Council, they to pay the Council in respect to
each child cleansed under the agreement the .sum of 2s., such payment
of 2s. in respect of each child to cover any number of attendances by
such child at the Cleansing Station for the purpose of such cleansing
within the period of one calendar month calculated from the attendance
at which the child is first cleansed and to be irrespective of the number
of baths required before the child can reasonably be regarded as
cleansed.
The place of treatment of children shall be entirely distinct from
any establishment used for the isolation of suspected cases of infectious
disease contacts.
The exclusive use of the baths for the cleansing of children shall be
allowed on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. The
City Council shall not be required to cleanse more than 10 children in