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During the year four small washing machines were installed, The charges for the use of these
machines is a fee of 6d. for a period not exceeding half an hour, or 9d. per wash not exceeding a
period of one hour with a fee of 6d. for every additional half hour or less period. The number of
women using these machines was 1,450.
MORTUARY AND CHAPEL OF REST.
During the year 89 bodies were deposited in the Public Mortuary under the following
circumstances:—
At the request of relatives or friends of the deceased 67
At the request of undertakers 3
By the Police 19
89
In 16 cases, post-mortem examinations were made under the Coroner's warrant.
Twenty-nine bodies were deposited in the Chapel of Rest, Avondale Park.
RAG FLOCK ACT, 1911.
Four samples of rag flock were analysed and reported on during the year. They contained 19,
29, 30 and 21 parts of chlorine per 100,000, the limit set by the Regulations being 30 parts. The
Public Health Committee directed that cautions be issued in respect of the two samples containing
29 and 30 parts respectively.
INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS)
ACTS, 1920-23.
Applications made to the Council for certificates under the Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1923, totalled 34, and 20 certificates were granted.

This comparative failure by tenants to attempt to make use of the provisions of the Acts is
probably due mainly to the fact that most houses in a defective state of repair come under the
notice of the Sanitary Inspectors, who put the Public Health Acts into operation.
CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS PERSONS ACT, 1897.
The cleansing of verminous persons is carried out at the Medicinal Baths, Blechynden Mews.
In ly20 an agreement was entered into with the London County Council, which provides for
the use of the Medicinal Baths by the County Council for the cleansing of children attending elementary
schools in and around Kensington. Under this agreement the County Council guarantee to
the Borough Council a minimum payment of £450 per annum for a period of five years.
Technically, in accordance with the provisions of the Children Act, 1908, children sent from
the elementary schools are cleansed by the School Nurse in the employ of the London County
Council, who attends at the Station for the purpose, and is responsible to her employers for the
effective use of the apparatus provided. In practice, the actual work of bathing and disinfecting
garments is executed by the Borough Council's servants under the supervision of the School Nurse.
A further agreement in regard to the cleansing of verminous inmates of common lodging
houses was made with the County Council in 1920, in which the Borough Council have agreed to
cleanse verminous inmates from Kensington common lodging houses free of charge and to bath
those sent by the London County Council officers from common lodging houses in neighbouring
boroughs at a rate of a 1/- per bath.
The cleansing of Kensington persons not sent by officers of the County Council is performed
free of charge under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health.
Arrangements have been made with the Councils of the neighbouring Boroughs of
Hammersmith, Paddington and Fulham for the cleansing of residents (other than school children