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Cleansing of Verminous Persons.
No proper local arrangements have yet been made by
the London County Council for the cleansing of verminous
school children and occupiers of common lodging houses
within the Borough—statutory obligations imposed upon
the County Council by Parliament.
Verminous premises are disinfected as required, but such
disinfection is not satisfactory without the school children
and the inmates of the common lodging houses, who are
themselves verminous, being cleansed also at the same time.
The numbers of verminous houses and rooms disinfected
and cleansed during 1912, and the three previous years
are:—
Year. Houses. Rooms.
1909 148 387
1910 207 646
1911 268 535
1912 580 1109*
Cleansing of Children.
The London County Council, as the Educational
Authority, have not yet carried out their statutory obligations
and provided the necessary cleansing stations for
verminous school children, but have again suggested during
1912 (letter dated July 24th†) that the Borough Councir
should adopt cleansing stations under the Permissive Cleansing
of Persons Act, 1897, the County Council to have the
use of the same by agreement at stipulated charges, for
the cleansing of verminous (a) school children, and (b)
adults, e.g., inmates of common lodging houses, the stations
being planned with separate entrances for children and
* Bedding 1260 and clothing 356.
†The matter was previously dealt with by the Council on April
2nd, 1908, and June 30th, 1910.