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II. Cleansing of Dwelling I'laces and Contents.
(а) Number of rooms infested with vermin caused to be stripped and cleansed, 172.
(b) Number of articles in an unwholesome condition removed from dwelling
places to the Cleansing Station for purification or destruction, 149.

Note.—Some rooms stripped and cleansed had no contents or none in a condition requiring removal,
and some contents were removed from rooms that did not require to be stripped or cleansed.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CLEANSING STATION.
(I.) In 1893 a Family Shelter (now known as a Contact Shelter) was
erected at the Disinfecting Station over the coach-houses, wash-house, and
store room in the western wing of the station buildings at a cost of £450.
This Contact Shelter consisted of four rooms, each with a bath room attached
and two W.C.'s, one at each end of the corridor of access, and was approached
from the station yard by an outside iron staircase at the south end. (See
M.O. H.'s Annual Report for 1892.)
(II.) In 1903 the room at the rear of the wash-house on the ground floor
and at the north end of the western wing of the buildings was converted into two
bath rooms for verminous men at a cost of £45. Similarly the north end
room with bath room of the Contact Shelter over was fitted with a second
bath, and provided with a separate iron staircase for access from the station
yard and so converted into two bath rooms for verminous women and children
at a cost of £42. This part of the building used for verminous persons was
cut. off from the Contact Shelter and named the Personal Cleansing House,
and cost altogether £87. (see Annual Reports of M.O.H. for 1903-4.)