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The charge for the use of the washing 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 in 1925 was 8,447.

In 15 cases, post-mortem examinations were made under the Coroners warrant.
Fifty-one bodies were deposited in the Chapel of Rest, Avondale Park. This building is of
considerable convenience to those poor persons in Notting Dale who live in perhaps one or two
rooms and have no satisfactory accommodation for the bodies of dead relatives until the day of the
funeral.
CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS PERSONS.
The cleansing of verminous persons is carried out at the Medicinal Baths, Blechynden Mews.
In 1920 an agreement was entered into with the London County Council, which provided 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 guaranteed to
the Borough Council a minimum payment of £450 per annum for a period of five years.
This agreement was renewed in 1925 for a fuither period of five years, but the guaranteed minimum
payment is now .£400 per annum. Technically, in accordance with the provisions of the Children
Act, 1908, children sent Irom 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
Paddington and Fulham for the cleansing of residents (other than school children and common
lodging-house cases) of those Boroughs at the Medicinal Baths, on the recommendation and
under the responsibility of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough in which the persons
reside.
The Councils of these two Boroughs have agreed to pay 1s. per bath and to indemnify the
Council of the Royal Borough against any claim which a Paddington or Fulham person may bring
in respect of any treatment given at the Medicinal Baths.