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THE MANUFACTURE AND SUPPLY OF ELECTROLYTIC
DISINFECTANT.
The Public Health and Housing Committee considered two
reports suggesting the manufacture of electrolysed salt water for
disinfecting purposes, as a substitute for the disinfectants used in
the Borough.
The reports were submitted to the Council, and the Council
resolved that a plant should be erected in Poplar.
Previous to the second report being submitted to the Council the
works of M. Hermite at Rolleville, near Havre, France, were visited
by Councillor A. G. Smith, the then Chairman of the Public Health
and Housing Committee; Councillor John Bussey, then Chairman
of the Electricity Committee; Councillor F. Thorne, then Chairman
of the Works Committee; Mr. Bowden, the Electrical
Engineer; Mr. McClelland, representative of Messrs. Geipel and
Lange, M. Hermite's agents in this country, and myself.*
THE CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACT, 1897.
The Cleansing of Persons Act provides that:—
1. Any local authority shall have the power, when in their
discretion they shall see fit, to permit any person who shall apply
to the said authority, on the ground that he is infested with vermin,
to have the use, free of charge, of the apparatus (if any) which
the authority possess for cleansing the person and his clothing from
* Whilst this report is being written a plant has been erected at the Electricity
Works Glaucus Street. The fluid is being supplied to the various Depots
for distribution to the public, and is also being delivered to the Works
Department for watering roads, etc.