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Cleansing of Verminous Persons.
No arrangement has been come to for the cleansing of
verminous school children and occupiers of common lodging
houses within the Borough of Lambeth. The Council decided,
on June 30th, 1910, to again call upon the London
County Council, as the Education and common lodging
houses Authority, to carry out the statutory obligations
imposed upon them by Parliament, under sections 36 and
37 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1907. This decision of the Council was the result of a
letter from the Education Authority, dated May 4th, 1910,
agreeing provisionally upon the general outlines of a scheme
for the treatment of verminous children throughout London,
and asking the Lambeth Council to co-operate, as follow:—
1. That the cleansing stations provided by the various
Metropolitan Borough Councils should, as far as possible,
be utilised by agreement with the Borough
Councils.
2. That the treatment of children should be entirely
distinct from any establishment used for the isolation
of suspected cases of infectious disease contacts.
3. That the exclusive use of the baths for the cleansing
of children should be allowed on certain days.
4. That the cleansing station should be in a convenient
position and that the children should be
efficiently supervised, with female attendants for the
treatment of the girls.
5. That a uniform payment to the Borough Councils
at the rate of 2/0 per child, irrespective of the number
of baths required before a child can be regarded as
clcansed, should be arranged throughout London.
6. That this scheme be subject to the Borough Councils
undertaking, where necessary, to deal with the
homes ol the children cleansed.