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and the annual expenditure amounts to £350 per annum."
The report further stated that the cost of disinfecting and
cleansing of infected articles in Kensington, in the three years
1893-95, had been £2,988, or on an average about £1,000 a
year (irrespective of the wages of disinfecting officers); a sum
which was largely exceeded in 1896, £1,361 having been paid
to the contractor in that year. Information which I laid
before the committee went to show that a station and a shelter
could be erected for a less amount than had been expended
at Islington, and that some hundreds of pounds per
annum might be saved on the present cost of disinfection.
But " as a result of the committee's consideration of the matter,"
they came to the conclusion, but upon what grounds I do not
know, that " it is not desirable that the Vestry should provide
their own disinfecting station in the parish, but that the disinfecting
and cleansing of clothing, bedding, &c., should
continue to be entrusted to the present contractors." The
committee accordingly recommended " that no variation be
made in the arrangements at present in force for the execution
of this work," and their report was adopted.