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The return for 1893 is the most unsatisfactory yet issued
for Fulham, showing that the number of children remaining
"unaccounted for" amounted to 10 per cent, of the total
births. In no previous year has the number been more than
7 per cent.
No doubt the long delay in the issue of the report of
the Royal Commission on Vaccination is accountable for this,
increasing, as it does, the difficulty of enforcing the Acts.
The Commission has now been sitting for nearly six years,
and has concluded taking evidence, so that its decision could
be at once made known, even if the detailed report were
published later.
DISINFECTION.
Infected articles were disinfected by the contractor, Mr.
Lacy, Townmead Wharf, by whom the articles were also
collected. Mr. Lacy's disinfecting plant is of the most
approved pattern and has proved fully equal to all demands
made upon it. The infected articles were always promptly
removed, and the work most efficiently done. The weight of
the articles disinfected was 1468 cwt., and the amount paid by
the Vestry to Mr. Lacy ,£9l8.
Accommodation for Temporary Shelter.
The necessity for the acquisition or erection of some
premises where persons can be temporarily housed during the
disinfection of their dwellings has again been brought under
the notice of the Vestry, as the want of this accommodation
was on several occasions severely felt, and the Vestry had
already decided that such shelter should be provided.