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I have expressed to the Sanitary Committee my opinion
that expenditure under this head is too great, and that it
might be reduced under different arrangements.
SHELTERS.
In connection with the question of disinfection, I may
not inappropriately recall to your Vestry's attention the
fourth sub-section, of section, 61 of the Public Health (London)
Act: it reads as follows:—
"The vSanitary Authority shall provide, free of charge, temporary shelter or
house accommodation, with any necessary attendants, for the members
of any family in which any dangerous infectious disease has appeared,
who have been compelled to leave their dwellings for the purpose of
enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the sanitary Authority."
The sub-section is a re-enactment of a provision contained
in section 15 of the now repealed Infections Disease {Prevention)
Act, 1890, to which I directed your Vestry's attention in
my tenth monthly report for that year (October 6th, page 104),
and on other occasions. Nothing, however, has been done in
this parish to give effect to the requirements of the section,
which, it will have been observed, are of an obligatory character;
and in London generally, only about one-third of the Sanitary
Authorities have provided Shelters. It is said to be difficult
to get the people to make use of the Shelters : my experience,
nevertheless, testifies to the necessity for such accommodation,
which might be provided in this parish, as it is in other
districts, in connection with a Station for disinfection
purposes.