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Outworkers.—The total number of lists received during the year
amounted to 1,163.
Notices in respect of failure to send lists were sent to 126 firms. In one
case a prosecution was ordered and the firm concerned was ordered to pay
£1 1s. costs.
The lists contained 11,155 names and addresses of which 6,657 were
in other districts, 5,623 being within the Metropolitan area and 697 in the
London Suburban Districts.
The number of individual outworkers in the City at the close of the
year was 1,715, of whom 1,413 were registered as occupying workshops.
The number of houses in which outwork was being carried on was 833.
Disinfection.
Legislation is contemplated in respect of obtaining power for compelling
the removal of verminous persons to a cleansing station for the
purpose of cleansing and disinfection.
There have been instances in the City of vagrants in a filthy and
verminous condition frequenting places of public resort; but neither the
police nor the sanitary authority, at present, have any powers to enforce
cleansing in such cases.
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 57 houses,
and 5,001 articles of clothing, bedding, etc., were removed for disinfection.
Individuals, numbering 331 men and 20 women, and 7 children
under school age, were given medicated baths at the Disinfecting Station,
which necessitated their making 361 attendances.
Notices from the London County Council in regard to school children
affected with vermin numbered 640, and the Disinfecting Superintendent
and the Sanitary Inspectors paid 720 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
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