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80
Quarter.
Total
number of
Cleansings.
Amount.
191G. £ s. d.
March 621 29 12 0
June 752 31 6 0
September 484 20 16 0
December 967 27 0 0
Totals 2,824 £108 14 0
2,290 children (926 boys and 1,364 girls) belonging to the Borough
and 562 children (297 boys and 265 girls) outside the Borough were
bathed and their clothes disinfested.
Miss Tattersall made 779 visits in connection with verminous
(not itch) school children—227 Poplar, 302 Bromley, and 250 Bow.
Itch Cases.
The itch cases are included in the verminous cases.
Miss Tattersall made 212 visits in connection with children suffering
from itch—58 Poplar, 88 Bromley, and 66 Bow.
CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACT, 1897.
The Council is empowered by the Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897,
to give any person applying, on the ground that he is infested with
vermin free use of any apparatus for cleansing his person and clothing,
and may expend any reasonable sum on buildings, appliances and
attendants for this purpose. Provision was made in 1605 for cleansing
verminous persons.
During the year 158 persons (including 113 from Common Lodging
Hoases—see below) had applied for baths and for their clothes to be
disinfested. Since the notices were posted throughout the Borough, a
total of 5,804 persons, exclusive of non-residents, had applied for baths,
etc., as mentioned above.