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Agreement with the London County Council to Bath Inmates
from Common Lodging Houses from without the Borough
of Poplar.
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, 1915, and it was
renewed for a period of three years.
The agreement provides 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.
PORT SANITARY NOTICES
On the 28th January information was received from the Medical
Officer of Health for Folkestone that 20 passengers (Chinamen) of the
s.s. "Mecklenberg," from Flushing, had arrived at Folkestone and were
proceeding to Poplar apparently in good health, and that a case of Small
Pox had occurred on board the ship. The passengers had not arrived
on the 1st February, and the Folkestone Port Medical Officer was informed
of the fact by telegram. One address given was in the Borough
of Stepney, but the Medical Officer of Health for that Borough stated the
passenger was not known at the address given, and furnished further
addresses in Poplar where the passenger might possibly be found. The
London County Council was informed of the notice respecting the intended
arrival of the Chinamen in order that enquiries could be made at seamen's
lodging-houses frequented by Chinamen, as probably wrong addresses
had been given. The Officers of the Public Health Department
endeavoured to trace the Chinamen so that they might be kept under
observation for 14 days.; but no evidence that they had arrived at the
addresses given, or at other addresses in Poplar, could te found. Both
the Local Government Board and the London County Council were
communicated with in the matter, as well as the Medical Cfficer for
Folkestone, but no further information could be obtained regarding the
Chinamen in question. The report from Folkestone, in the first place,
was that the men were proceeding to the addresses stated, apparently in
good health.