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London County Council,
Council Offices,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.
25th October, 1910.
Sir,
Cleansing of Children infested with Vermin.
The Appropriate Committee of the Council have had under
consideration the suggestion contained in your letter of the 3rd
instant., as to the exclusion fiom school of children found to be in
a verminous condition.
As you are aware, the Council has for some time had under
consideration the general question of dealing with verminous
children throughout London, and the use of the cleansing stations
established by the Borough Councils in connection therewith. The
Council has itself established, as an experiment, three cleansing
stations, viz., at the "Chaucer" School (Bermondsey), Bath Street
School (Finsbury, E.), and Finch Street School (Whitechapel).
The procedure set out in the attached statement has been put into
operation at these centres, and it is hoped that arrangements will
shortly be made which will enable this pi-ocedure to be extended
throughout London.
I am now directed to state that the Committee are unable to
see their way to adopt the suggestion of the Public Health and
Housing Committee of the Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council
as to the exclusion of verminous children, and to point out that the
necessity of such a course being adopted will be obviated when
the general arrangements above referred to are complete.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) B. BLAIR,
Education Officer.
The Clerk of the
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar,
Council Offices,
High Street, Poplar, E.