View report page

177
it was added, "without charge for land, amounted to about
£4500, made up as follows:—Disinfectors, Laundry, Chimney
Shaft, Paving and Drainage, £3,500; Shelter and Caretaker's
House £1,000; and the annual expenditure amounts to £350
per annum." The report further stated that the cost of disinfection
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 salaries of disinfecting
officers); a sum which was largely exceeded, as we have seen, in
1896. Information which I laid before the Committee went to
show that a station and a shelter could probably be erected for
a less amount than had been expended at Islington, and that
many hundreds of pounds per annum might be saved on the
present cost of disinfection; no provision having hitherto been
made for a shelter. But "as a result of the Committee's
consideration of the matter," they came to the conclusion 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 by your Vestry.
TEMPORARY SHELTER OR HOUSE
ACCOMMODATION.
In June, 1895, the Strand District Board of Works
addressed a circular letter to the Sanitary Authorities, inquiring
whether they were in favour of the repeal of sub-section (4) of
section 60 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, relating to
Temporary Shelters for persons turned out of their homes
during the time necessary for disinfection after infectious
disease, it being the experience of that Board that such