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ments have been completed only the names of those cases which
have been cleansed at a station will be forwarded to you.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) JAMES KERR,
Medical Officer (Education).
P. W. Alexander, Esq., D.P.H.,
Borough of Poplar.
Council Offices, Poplar.
3rd October, 1910.
Dear Sir,
Verminous Children in Schools.
Adverting to your letter of the 26th July last, I am desired by
the Public Health and Housing Committee to state they are
informed the verminous children found in the schools, and notified
to the Medical Officer of Health, are not excluded from school
pending cleansing of their person.
The cases notified are immediately visited by the lady sanitary
inspector with a view to inducing attendance at the cleansing station
and securing disinfesting and cleansing of the bedding and the
homes, but owing to the continued attendance of the children at the
schools, 17 children only out of 59 notified were reported as having
attended at the cleansing station.
I am directed to urge that the London County Council should
exclude verminous children from school, and if any return without
cleansing, that the provisions relating to verminous children
contained in the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1907, or the Children's Act, 1908, should be put into operation.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) LEONARD POTTS,
Town Cleric.
The Medical Officer (Education),
Education Offices,
Victoria Embankment.