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which takes place once a month at each centre. Grants are made for
a period of one month and are reconsidered for continuation at each
meeting. Preparations of dried milk are sold at cost price in connection
with the centres, 4,281 pounds being disposed of during the year. The
amount expended by the Council for fresh milk as extra nourishment
for mothers and infants amounted to £416 16s. 6d. Cases in receipt of
Public Assistance are not eligible for the council's extra nourishment
scheme, but a scheme of co-operation with the Public Assistance Committee
is being worked out whereby mothers and infants in receipt of
public assistance may be referred to the centres for special recommendations
for extra nourishment on medical grounds. This extra
nourishment will be additional to any relief in kind and would then
be provided by the Public Assistance Committee.
Insulin Treatment.—One patient is still under treatment and the
cost to the Council for the year was £13.
Disinfection.—Disinfection of rooms from which patients suffering from
notifiable infectious disease have been removed is carried out by means of
the formaldehyde spray. For other non-notifiable infectious conditions
disinfection is carried out on request, and a charge is made according to
the circumstances of the case.
Bedding and wearing apparel are removed to the Disinfecting
Station, and are there submitted to steam disinfection. Books are
treated with formalin.
The cleansing of persons and disinfection of clothing, etc., in a
verminous state are carried out by the Disinfecting Staff. Visits were
paid to 113 houses, and 6,786 articles of clothing, bedding, etc., were
removed for disinfection. Individuals, numbering 290 men, 31 women,
and 2 children (under school age), were given medicated baths at
the Disinfecting Station, making 372 attendances.
Notices from the London County Council in regard to school children
affected with vermin numbered 49. The Disinfecting Foreman and
the Sanitary Inspectors paid 275 visits of investigation to their homes.
By agreement with the London County Council, arrangements are in
force for the treatment at the Westminster Disinfecting Station of school
children from the boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Holborn, Kensington,
Lambeth, St. Pancras, St. Marylebone, Fulhain, and Stoke Newington.
Among Westminster school children 388 cases of head lice, 4 cases of
body lice, and 28 of scabies were treated. In all these cases, the clothing
was disinfected, together with the bedding from their homes, amounting