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Arrangements have been made with the Wandsworth Borough
Council, and the Lambeth Borough Council, for certain of the residents
in those Boroughs, who require treatment or cleansing, to attend at the
Battersea Personal Cleansing Station, the cost of this service being borne
by the respective Boroughs in which the patients are resident.
During the year 62 treatments were given to Wandsworth resident
and 48 treatments to Lambeth residents.
Methods of Treatment:—
Scabies: Persons attending for treatment are given a hot bath
for twenty to thirty minutes, thoroughly dried, and Benzyl Benzoate
applied to the whole of the body. This is repeated on alternate days,
there being three treatments in all.
Verminous heads: The hair is treated with a preparation containing
cotton-seed oil, tar oil, paraffin oil and oil of lemon grass, and
then washed with a shampoo of soft soap and borax. It is then dried
thoroughly, combed with a Sacker's comb to remove nits, washed.
dried and combed again. The operation takes approximately half an
hour for each child, and a final check is made by the Sister in attendance.
The Council have two flats attached to the Personal Cleansing
Station for the temporary use in emergency of people or a family
displaced, usually following fumigating procedure. The Council have
agreed that these shelters may be used for Wandsworth residents at
an annual fee of £25 for the right to use the shelters and a weekly
charge of £1 10s. 0d. per shelter for every case sent there.