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into consideration the distance from the houses, and even from the
station platform nearest to where the sorting was going on, no
nuisance could possibly arise.
A discussion has taken place with the London County Council
as regards the cleansing of verminous children. It will be remembered
that this Council decided to allow the children whose
heads had been found by the school nurse to be in a verminous
condition to use our disinfection station under the superintendence
of our own officers. An amount has been expended on this work
which really should be borne by the London County Council. If
the work is to grow at the rate at which it has been doing during
the last year, the present arrangements at the Peckham Park Road
Depot, which were originally intended for the voluntary cleansing of
adults, will be found to be totally inadequate. As it is, it is worked
with a certain amount of difficulty, owing to the structural conditions,
and to the lack of sufficient means for the heating of the
bath water. At present the supply of this commodity has to be
supplemented by one of the staff being employed to carry it over
from the disinfecting machine, a procedure inadvisable and wasteful
of time.
Complaints were received of the nuisance caused by the defective
urinal accommodation in the neighbourhood of the Joiners'
Arms Yard in Denmark Hill. It was pointed out that there are two
music halls and several public-houses in the immediate neighbourhood.
The Committee made a midnight visit to the locality and
concluded that the matter is mainly one for the police, for it is the
public who cause the nuisance by their impatience. An additional
light, which, however, was not considered necessary by the Geneval
Purposes Committee, would probably do something to deter persons
from using the outside instead of the inside of the urinal already
provided.
Complaint has been made of a factory at Camberwell Green.
In consequence of complaints made the owners called in a firm of
sanitary surveyors, who made various suggestions as regards the
sanitary fittings of the place. As a consequence of this action I was
requested to report on the nuisance and the proposed remedies. On
May 5th it was ordered that a summons be issued, but a letter was
received from the owners stating that the factory was to be shut
down temporarily, and that they would then carry out my recommendtions.
Certain works have, I believe, been carried out by
them, but which were not in any way supervised by me, nor were my
suggestions asked for. Complaints still continue, and the matter at
the end of the year was still under consideration by your Committee.
The question of the colour of the water from the well at the Old
Kent Road Baths was referred to the Bacteriologist and myself, and
on the following report the Committee decided that no action be
taken:—
"The precipitation of the iron in the water from the artesian well at the Old Kent
Road Baths occurs on exposure of the water to the air, and the greater rapidity
with which it can be exposed in this way the speedier will be the formation of the