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Cleansing Verminous or Filthy Children attending Public Elementary
Schools.
By Section 122 of the Children Act, 1908, the local education
authority have power to cleanse any children attending a public
elementary school whose clothes or persons are verminous or filthy,
and, may also by the same Section, require any Sanitary Authority
within their district, who have provided premises or appliances, to
allow them to use such premises and appliances for the above
purposes.
The Hackney Borough Council having provided premises and
appliances under the Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897, the London
County Council, being the local educational authority, applied to the
Hackney Borough Council in July last for the loan of their
cleansing station, &c., for the cleansing of elementary school
children. The application was agreed to, subject to the following
terms:—
1. The Borough Council will reserve their said cleansing
station at Millfields Road aforesaid hereinafter referred to as
the cleansing station on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in
every week from the date hereof between the hours of nine
o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon for
the exclusive use of children who may be sent to the cleansing
station by the Council in pursuance of this Agreement.
2. The Borough Council will on the days and between
the hours aforesaid properly cleanse to the reasonable satisfaction
of the Council at the cleansing station the persons and
clothing of children infested with vermin or in a foul or filthy
condition who may be sent to the cleansing station by the
Council for the purpose of such cleansing provided that such
children are in attendance at public elementary schools and
that the Borough Council shall not be required to cleanse more
than ten children in any one day or thirty children in any one
week.