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The Borough Council were advised by the Medical Officer
of Health that with respect to verminous persons from common
lodging-houses, having regard to the fact that there is only one
common lodging-house in Fulham, sufficient accommodation
existed at the Disinfecting Station to deal with the few cases
likely to arise, there being a bath there and a dressing-room,
together with appliances for freeing the clothes from vermin.
With regard to children, for whom separate arrangements
must be made, the Medical Officer of Health recommended that
the necessary provision should be made at the Shelter adjoining
the Disinfecting Station, where the alterations and additions necessary
for the work could be made at a cost of about £15, and
that the services of a woman to bathe the children should be engaged,
to be paid either by Borough Council or London County
Council. The Borough Council, however, decided to inform
the County Council that they were willing to co-operate with
them by cleansing verminous clothing, and enforcing the provisions
of sections 19, 20, 21 and 24 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, relating to verminous
rooms, but that in their opinion the cleansing of verminous children
should be undertaken by the parents of such children.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
In the report for 1906, the attention of the Council was
called to the unsatisfactory nature of the exemption clauses of
the bye-laws in respect of houses let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, and further experience has
shown that these clauses must be amended if any use is to be
made of the bye-laws, as at present many houses escape registration,
which can only be dealt with satisfactorily, in the
interests alike of owners and occupiers, in this manner.
DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS.