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Council to examine the person and clothing of any child attending
a school, and if the child be found to be verminous to require that the
parent or other person should properly cleanse such child and the
clothing within 24 hours; if the person fail, he may then remove the
child from any school and cause the person and clothing of such
child to be properly cleansed; by section 37, similar provision is made
enabling the Medical Officer of the London County Council to enforce
the cleansing of the person and clothing of the inmates; of common'
lodging-houses; section 38 enables: the London County Council and any
sanitary authorities to make and carry into effect agreements and
arrangements for the purpose of cleansing the persons and clothing
in the afore-mentioned cases, and section 40 empowers the London
County Council to make regulations with respect to the mode of
carrying into effect the provisions of the above sections.
The Children Act, 1908, by section 122, sub-sections (1) and
(2), reproduces the powers of section 36, sub-sections (1) and (2) of
the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, with regard
to the examination of children attending school, the giving notice and
requisitions to cleanse the person and clothing of any child infected
with vermin or in a foul or filthy condition, and for the removal and
forceable detention and cleansing of such child. And in addition
to this, sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 122 of the Children Act,
1908, provide:—
"(3) Where any sanitary authority within the district of a
local education authority have provided, or are entitled to the
use of any premises or appliances for cleansing the person or
clothing of persons infested with vermin, the sanitary authority
shall, if so required by the local education authority, allow the
local education authority to use such premises and appliances
for the purpose of this section, upon such payment (if any) as
may be agreed between them, or, in default of an agreement,
settled by the Local Government Board."
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