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politan Borough of Poplar have applied to be cleansed of vermin,
but could not produce an order authorising the Borough Council
to cleanse them.
With reference thereto, I have been directed to inform you
that after careful consideration the Council is prepared so far as
the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar is concerned, to adopt for
six months, as an experiment, the under-mentioned variation of
the scheme of cleansing hitherto in vogue :—
The Borough Council to cleanse forthwith any applicant
who claims to be an inmate of a common lodging-house and
the Council will, on the receipt of a claim from the Borough
Council, pay one shilling for each person cleansed who can
be identified as coming from a common lodging-house situate
outside the Borough; the names and addresses of the persons
to be supplied to the Council immediately the cleansing has
been carried out.
I have to ask that the Council may be favoured with the views
of the Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council on this proposal.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
L. Gomme,
Clerk of the Council.
The Town Clerk of the
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
The Committee recommended the Council that the proposals of the
London County Council, as stated, be accepted.
The agreement with the London County Council for the cleansing,
at the Borough Council's Cleansing Station, of verminous inmates of
common- lodging-houses, expired on the 22nd July, 1912, and the London
County Council suggested its renewal for a period of three years.
The agreement provided that the Council shall cleanse free of charge
any inmate of a common lodging-house in the borough, and at a charge
to the County Council of one shilling any inmate of a common lodginghouse
outside the borough, sent to the Cleansing Station by the London
County Council.