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any one day. The children must be efficiently supervised, with female
attendants for the treatment of girls. (A female attendant has been
appointed for this purpose.) The City Council agreed to allow School
Nurses to be present.
The County Council will pay the Council a minimum sum of 5s.
for every day on which the Cleansing Station is placed at the disposal
of the County Council, whether any children are sent on every one of
such days or not, unless the County Council give the City Council 24
hours' previous notice that they do not require the use of the
Cleansing Station.
In the case of children living in Westminster, the City Council
agree to take concurrently with the cleansing of any child, such steps
as they are legally empowered to take in order to effect the cleansing
of the home of such child in all cases where the cleansing of the house
is, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of
Westminster, reasonably necessary for the health and cleanliness of the
child.
A woman was sentenced to three months' hard labour, at the instance
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, for neglecting
her two children and allowing them to become dirty and verminous.
Verminous Houses.—244 notices with reference to vermin in rooms
were issued on the reports of the Sanitary Inspectors; 58 of these were
fumigated with sulphur by the Council's staff, the remainder by the
owners. In all 1,185 articles were treated at the disinfecting station
on account of their verminous condition, and a number were destroyed.
Mortuaries.
The number of bodies removed to the Council's mortuaries under
order of the Coroner, or to await burial, was 373; in 2 instances
death was the result of infectious disease.
Three hundred and thirty-four inquests were held at Horseferry Road
where the Coroner's Court is situated; 4 adjourned inquests were held.
Post-mortem examinations were made in 177 instances at Horseferry
Iioad. The number of inquests has not been so large since 1903.