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Cleansing of Verminous Persons.
No proper local arrangements have yet been made l v
the London County Council for tRe cleansing of verminous
school children and occupiers of common lodging houses
within the Borough—statutory obligations imposed upon
the County Council by Parliament. The London County
Council, as the Educational Authority, have simply suggested
that the Borough Council should provide cleansing stations
under the Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 (a permissive Act),
and that the County Council should have the use of the
same by agreement at stipulated charges, for the cleansing
of verminous (a) school children, and (b) adults, e.g., inmates
of common lodging houses, the stations to be
planned with separate entrances for children and adults.
The stipulated charge offered by the County Council is 52/t)
a child, such payment to cover any number of attendances
by the child at the station for cleansing within a period
of one calendar month from the date of the first cleansing.
No stipulated charge is offered for adults.
This suggestion of the County Council has not yet been
accepted by the Borough Council, who are of opinion that
the provision of cleansing stations for verminous (a) school
children, and (b) inmates of common lodging houses, is' a
statutory obligation devolving upon the County Council,
under whose jurisdiction schools and common lodging
houses are. Meanwhile, Lambeth Borough remains unprovided
with the required cleansing stations.
Verminous premises are disinfected as required, but such
disinfection is not satisfactory without the school children
and inmates of the common lodging houses, who are
themselves verminous, being cleansed also at the same time.