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148 ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
Attention has been drawn in previous reports to
the power conferred upon the Asylums Board to allow
the use of their ambulances for the removal of infectious
cases to other places than their Hospitals. During
last year advantage was taken of this throughout the
Metropolis by 593 persons who otherwise might have
used public conveyances.
Disinfection.
During the twelve months ending 31st December,
1893, 222 premises were purified and cleansed after
infectious disease, and 5,080 articles were disinfected
in your Board's apparatus.
Shelters.—Under Section 60 of the Public Health,
London, Act, the Sanitary Authority shall provide, free
of charge, temporary shelter or house accommodation
for the members of any family in which dangerous
infectious disease has appeared, who have been compelled
to leave their dwellings for the purpose of
enabling such dwellings to be disinfected. Your Board
have hitherto taken a room temporarily when it was
required to shelter persons turned out, but now a house
has been leased, and will be at all times available for
this purpose.
Vaccination in the District.
I am indebted to Mr. Geo. J. Milford and Mr. Snell,
Vaccination Officers respectively of Westminster Union
and Strand Union, for the subjoined details relating to
the performance of Vaccination in those parts of the
above Unions included in the Strand District.*
*The Vaccination Officers do not make their Reports to the Local Government
Board until a later date, by which time those infants who were not old