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great an expenditure as would be necessary for the compulsory
notification of measles, unless it can be proved that corresponding
results would be achieved; and no evidence has been adduced that
this has been the case." For this and other reasons adduced in
the Committee's lieport, they were unable to recommend the Vestry
to take any further action in the matter.
Salvation
Army
Shelter.
A full report of the action brought by the Salvation
Army against the Police Magistrate at Southwark and theVestry
of St. George the Martyr will be found in the
Appendix, of the Report of the M.O.H. It is unnecessary, therefore,
to refer to it here further than to say that the Public Health Committee
on the 6th July, 1896, passed a resolution expressing the opinion
that it is desirable Salvation Army Shelters should be placed under
the Common Lodging Houses Act, and urging the Local Government
Board to take immediate steps for the amendment of the law
accordingly.
Inconvenient
and
Insanitary
Buildings.
The attention of the Committee has been called to
certain new buildings, recently erected, which have been so
constructed as to be on the whole of an inconvenient and
insanitary character by reason of the narrowness of the
cases, the lack of provision of separate sanitary conveniences for each
floor, and the want of the necessary fittings for the storage of food,
yet in which no provisions of the London Building Act, 1894, appearto
have been technically violated. The subject has been brought by
the Committee before the London County Council and the owners of
the properties. It is hoped that the Council will use its influence
with owners of property to insure that in all new buildings, not only
the statutory requirements may be complied with, but that the
comfort and convenience of the poorer classes of tenants—who are,
by reason of the character of their employment, compelled to live in
close proximity thereto—may be adequately secured.
Boom
Disinfection.
Complaints having reached the Committee from various
sources (including a report of the M.O.H., respecting an
outbreak of diphtheria in Cornbury Street) that the disinfection
of rooms throughout the Parish was not being carried out in an
efficient manner, a Sub-Committee was appointed on the 9th