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2. That the aggregation of sickly infants should be avoided.
3. That the Pasteurisation of the milk be discontinued, and that
the milk be boiled immediately before it is given to the children.
4. That more attention be devoted to the destruction of flies in
the kitchens during hot weather.
5. That extra nurses should be provided for infants placed in
the main wards, and an extra night nurse for the children's ward.
6. That the Guardians of Camberwell be advised to modernize
the arrangement existing at Gordon Road Workhouse for the
quarantine of possibly infective children.
EDMUND CAUTLEY,
FRANCIS STEVENS.
On February 11th the report was received by the Borough
Council, but not unanimously, and a copy ordered to be sent to the
Local Government Board. Presumably it was sent on by them to
the Southwark Guardians, but no copy of the observations of the
latter on the report has ever been sent to me by them. It is inconceivable,
however, that an opportunity for further public abuse of
this Council would be missed.
That they did not relax their efforts to obtain some measure
of coercion of this Council is a fair inference when the following letter
is read:—
Whitehall, S.W.,
March 28th, 1914.
Sir,—I am directed by the Local Government Board to advert to your letter
of the 12th ultimo, forwarding a copy of reports by Dr. Stevens, Medical Officer of
Health to the Borough Council of Camberwell, and Dr. Cautley, and the Borough
Engineer, in regard to the arrangements at the East Dulwich Railway Siding for
dealing with refuse collected in the Borough.
In reply I am to state that the Board cannot accept the conclusion that the
nuisance to the adjacent Infirmary is purely an æsthetic one. The Board are
satisfied that the conditions complained of do, at times, give rise to real nuisance,
and they are still of opinion that other or improved arrangements should be made
by the Council for dealing with the refuse in question.
I am, at the same time, to forward to the Council the accompanying extract
from a letter which has been addressed to the Board on the subject by the Guardians
of the Southwark Union, and to request that the Board may be furnished with the
observations of the Council thereon.
(Signed) NOEL T. KERSHAW, Assistant Secretary.
[Extract referred to.]
Southwark Union, Ufford Street,
Blackfriars Road, S.E.,
February 20th, 1914.
Sir,- I am farther to request that a copy of the report of
the Camberwell Borough Council (if received) may be forwarded to the
Guardians in order that they may have an opportunity of repudiating
reflections cast upon them and their Medical Superintendent in connection
with the matter.
(Signed) Sydney Wood, Clerk.
To talk of reflections being cast seems rather puerile on the
part of those who have not repudiated, but, on the contrary, backed
up, the language used by their responsible officer, who refers to the
treatment of the dust as being "handled in a more wicked and scandalous
manner than ever," and in another report going still further,