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disinfected at the Council's yard being 9,740. No complaint of
damage done to any article was received during the year, and only
by the desire of the owner were any articles destroyed. Disinfecting
fluid is supplied gratis where required.
Disinfection of wearing apparel, &c., under the Midwives Act,
was carried out in 6 cases.
215 books belonging to the Council's Public Library, collected
from houses where infectious diseases had occurred, were disinfected
before being put back into circulation.
5 premises consisting of 11 rooms were fumigated during the
year, under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904,
as being verminous.
THE SHELTER.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Section 60, Sub-Section
4, imposes on the Sanitary Authority the duty of making provision
for the temporary housing of persons who are compelled to leave
their dwellings for the purpose of enabling such dwellings to be
disinfected by the Sanitary Authority.
In consequence of the old shelter in Watson Street being pulled
down to make way for the New Coroner's Court and Mortuary, it
became necessary to make some other arrangements in case of a
shelter being wanted. The Committee authorised me to communicate
with the Medical Officer of Greenwich, with a view of being allowed
the use of their shelter, and I received the following letter from him—
Public Health Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich, S.E.
January 17 th, 1907.
Dear Sir,
I beg to inform you that at the meeting of my Public Health
Committee last evening, I further brought up the question of the
use of our Disinfecting Shelter by persons from your Borough,
pending your making further provision yourselves; and my
Committee decided that they will be very pleased to grant you
this use at a charge of 5s. per person; with a minimum fee
of one guinea.
I am,
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Roberts, Ernest G. Annis.
Medical Officer of Health,
Deptford.
This letter was considered and its terms agreed to by the Committee;
I am pleased to say however that there was no need for us
to use the Greenwich Shelter during the year.