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The Refuge provided at the Wharf has been used four
times during the year—9 adults, and 10 children under 10
years of age, being accommodated during the disinfection
of their scarlet fever- and diphtheria-infected houses
respectively.
The new additional Refuge at Arlington Lodge, Wanless
Road, has been completed* and furnished during the year,
and is now ready for use when required. There appears,
however, to be in Lambeth, as elsewhere, a prejudice
against the use of such Refuges by those inhabitants who
ought to make the greatest use of them. The Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, makes it compulsory upon
all Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities to provide such
Refuges.
*The total cost of the alterations in connection with Arlington Lodge
(including drainage work), was £541 12s. 6d., whilst the Vestry voted sums
of (not to exceed) £30 and £50 for furnishing the refuge rooms and
the bacteriological laboratory respectively.