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London County Council 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Borough. | Provision made. | If at disinfection station. | If any special provision for children. | If by Borough Council. | Extent to which provision has been utilised. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Pancras | 2 baths and waiting room for each sex | Adjoining disinfection station | Yes | Yes | Males. | Females. | |
| 1904 | 952 | 514 | |||||
| 1905 | 2,126 | 1,174 | |||||
| l906 | 1,019 | 22 | |||||
| Sep. | |||||||
| Children. | |||||||
| 1904 | 330 | under 10 | |||||
| 1905 | 101 | ,, | |||||
| 1906 | 708 | under 15 | |||||
| Sep. | |||||||
| Shoreditch | Baths at shelter. New scheme under consideration | Yes | No | Yes | By males on two or three occasions. | ||
| Southwark | Special premises for bathing and cleansing | Separate premises | Children are received and, if necessary, sleep in Reception House | Yes | 1905— 33 males, 43 females. | ||
| Stepney | Free baths and disinfection | Yes | No, but matter is under consideration | Yes | 1906— 27 males, 2 females (girls). | ||
| Stoke Newington | As at Hackney | Yes | No | Hackney Borough Council | One male in last two years. | ||
| Wandsworth | Two baths | Yes | No | Yes | 1906 (7 months)— 7 males, and including 6 nurses for puerperal fever cases, 7 females. | ||
| Westminster | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Woolwich | One bath | Yes | No | Yes | Only just opened. | ||
It will thus be seen that some progress is being made in providing the necessary accommodation for
the cleansing of persons who are in a verminous condition. It is much to be hoped that there will no
longer be delay in the exercise of the powers conferred by the Act of 1897 and that every London
district will shortly be fully equipped to deal with verminous persons among its population. In the
schools the freedom of children from this condition is being insisted upon, and 32 nurses are now being
employed by the County Council in the examination of children for this purpose. Moreover, in St.
Marylebone a system has been adopted by which the administration of County Council and Borough
Council, working in conjunction, are doing much to secure the cleansing of children, and referring to
the condition of children attending the County Council Schools in London generally, Dr. Kerr is able
to point to a distinct improvement. (See Appendix II.)
The provision of baths in continental schools for the use of children attending the schools has
been referred to in my annual report for the year 1897, and subsequently. This subject is also discussed
by Dr. Kerr in appendix II.
| Water area. | Capacity of subsidence reservoirs. | Number of days' supply. | Filter area. | Area per million gallons of average daily supply. | Monthly rate of filtration. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly average. | Maximum average. | |||||
| gallons. | acres. | acres. | gallons. | gallons. | ||
| Chelsea | 190,000,000 | 15.5 | 8 | .653 | 1.649 | 2.006 |
| Eastern | 2,405, OOu, 000 | 55.5 | 34 | .801 | 1.072 | 1.30 |
| Grand Junction | 58.500,000 | 3.4 | 24¼ | 1.408 | .870 | 1.077 |
| Lambeth | 468,500,000 | 14.9 | 14¾ | .48 | 2.04 | 2.19 |
| New River | 168,100,000 | 4.8 | 165/6 | .407 | 2.41 | 2.68 |
| Southwark and Vauxhall | 390,000,000 | 12.7 | 23 | .746 | 1.46 | 2.19 |
| West Middlesex | 397,500,000 | 16.4 | 221/3 | .93 | 1.202 | 1.504 |
| Staines reservoirs | 3,300,000,000 | 16.6 | — | — | - | - |