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The Sanitary Inspectors hare instructions, when making their enquiries,
to advise persons to use the Shelter in appropriate cases. The Disinfectors
have also been instructed to recommend the Shelter to those requiring temporary
accommodation, and to offer to drive those to it who are willing to go.
The following suggestions were submitted for the consideration of your
Health Committee : —
1.—The provision of sleeping accommodation would be a great advantage.
At present the stripping and cleansing of a room seldom takes place on the
same day as the fumigation—generally it is the next day, and sometimes the
day after. The reason for this is that twenty-four hours' notice is by law
required before entering to strip and cleanse, and even if it were possible to
serve the notice earlier in some cases, it is impossible to do so in those cases
that are notified as infectious and removed to hospital the same day. Under
these conditions the provision of sleeping accommodation would probably
prove attractive by enabling occupiers to shelter, not only during the
fumigation, but also during the stripping and cleansing.
2.—The provision of increased comfort at the Shelter in the form of carpats,
curtains, &c., and as these can be disinfected in the chamber close by, after
each time of using, no risk would be incurred.
3.—Payment of the Caretaker according to results, so as to encourage the
taking of the extra trouble necessary to ensure families being informed of,
and conveyed to, the Shelter.
Before coming to any conclusion, your Committee was recommended to visit
and view the Shelters provided by some of the London Authorities—namely,
those of Islington, in the Seven Sisters' Road ; Marylebone, in Grove Road near
Capland Street; Paddington, in Harrow Road, opposite the Vestry Hall; St.
Margaret and St. John, Westminster, in Horseferry Road.
Your Committee found that it was usual to provide sleeping accommodation in
some Temporary Shelters, and that the stripping and cleansing, being part of
the process of disinfection, legally required accommodation to be provided
whilst being carried out, and that this necessitated sleeping.
After viewing the Shelters, they also decided that the provision of sleeping
accommodation at the Family Shelter provided by the Vestry of Saint Pancras
would be a great advantage, inasmuch as it would prove more attractive and
provide greater comfort.
Accordingly your Vestry resolved in January last (a) that the North-west
South-east rooms of the Family Shelter in Cambridge Street, Saint Pancras,
be furnished appropriately as bedrooms, and that a list of the furniture and
articles required be prepared, and estimates obtained for the consideration of
the Committee ; (b) that in addition to the remuneration at present paid to
the Caretaker for cleansing and taking charge of the Family Shelter (namely,
five shillings weekly), a sum of two shillings and sixpence be paid to her in
addition for attending upon each family sleeping at the Shelter, and a sum of
one shilling for each family attending at the Shelter, but not sleeping thereat.
VACCINATION.
The usual Tables, kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officers,—Messrs.
Richards and Webb—are set out in the two following pages : —