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much below the cost of the station and the machines, which
was £3,230.
In addition to the work set out in the above tables, bedding
belonging to the Council was on 262 occasions lent to homes
from which bedding had been removed for disinfection. After use
the Council's beds are collected, disinfected and returned to the
store-room on the "clean" side of the station. The lending,
collecting and disinfecting of this bedding throws a good deal
of work on the staff which does not appear in the preceding
tables.
Temporary Shelter or House Accommodation.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (section 60, subsection
4) imposes an obligation upon Sanitary Authorities
to provide accommodation for persons who have been compelled
to leave their dwellings on account of disinfection being carried
on therein.
The Reception Shelter, which was ready for occupation in
December, 1904, was occupied in 1905 by 33 persons whose
homes were being disinfected after infectious disease. In the
case of two families, food was supplied. One of the tenements
of which the Shelter is composed was used for the personal
disinfection of three midwives and three nurses who had been
in attendance on cases of puerperal fever. In addition to these
uses the Shelter might well be used to carry out the provisions
of the Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897, to which reference is
made below.
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897.
In March, 1905, a circular letter was received from the
London County Council enclosing a report by Dr. Wanklyn
on the administration of the Cleansing of Persons Act in the
Metropolitan Boroughs. The County Council suggested that
the Borough Councils generally might avail themselves more
fully of the provisions of the Act. On the instruction of the
Health Committee I submitted the following report on the
County Council's letter:—