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Outworkers.—The total number of lists received during the year
amounted to 1,160.
Notices in respect of failure to send lists were sent to 118 firms. In one
case a prosecution was ordered and the firm concerned was fined 40s.
The lists contained 11,208 names and addresses of which 6,502 were
in other districts, 5,598 being within the Metropolitan area and 682 in the
London Suburban Districts.
The number of individual outworkers in the City at the close of the
year was 1,745, of whom 1,482 were registered as occupying workshops.
The number of houses in which outwork was being carried on was 856.
Disinfection.
Disinfection of rooms from which patients suffering from notifiable
infectious disease have been removed is carried out by means of the
formaldehyde spray. For other non-notifiable infectious conditions
disinfection is carried out on request, and a charge is made according to
the circumstances of the case.
Bedding and wearing apparel are removed to the Disinfecting
Station, and are there submitted to steam disinfection. Books are
treated with formalin.
The cleansing of persons and of premises in a verminous state has
been carried out by the Disinfecting Staff. Visits were paid to 60 houses,
and 3,169 articles of clothing, bedding, etc., were removed for disinfection.
Individuals, numbering 213 men and 20 women, and 4 children
under school age, were given medicated baths at the Disinfecting Station,
which necessitated their making 249 attendances.
Notices from the London County Council in regard to school children
affected with vermin numbered 362, and the Disinfecting Superintendent
and the Sanitary Inspectors paid 501 visits of investigation to their homes.
By agreement with the London County Council, arrangements are in
force for the treatment at the Westminster Disinfecting Station of school
children from the boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Holborn, Kensington,
Lambeth, Paddington, St. Pancras, St. Marylebone, and the City of
London.
There were among Westminster children, 528 cases of head lice treated,
13 of body lice and 28 of scabies. In all these cases the clothing was
disinfected together with the bedding from their homes, amounting in all to
1,649 articles. Children from the above-mentioned boroughs treated for
similar conditions were as follows: 337 for head lice, 0 for body lice
and 10 for scabies. The number of attendances of these children for
baths at the station was 1,444.