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the meantime have their clothing disinfected. These measures will be further
reinforced when the sections of the London County Council (General Powers)
Bill, 1904, come into force, empowering the Borough Council also to cleanse
and purify infested bedclothing and other articles, and also to cleanse rooms
and parts of houses infested with vermin. When these provisions are added
the Council will be in complete possession of the power to cleanse and purify
verminous persons, clothing, bedding, and habitations, and the machinery will
be ready to at once carry the process out in its entirety.
When ready the following handbill is intended to be widely circulated:—
Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
Personal Cleansing Station.
The Borough Council of St. Pancras have provided baths and steam
chambers for the cleansing and purifying of the bodies and clothing of
persons infested with vermin or parasites. No charge is made for the use of
these facilities, and applicants will be treated with every consideration at the
Personal Cleansing Station, Cambridge Street, King's Road, Pancras Road,
N.W. (on the east side of the St. Pancras Gardens), between the hours of
9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
John F. J. Sykes,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
§ VACCINATION.
The following Tables have been kindly supplied by the "Vaccination Officers.