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willing to add to condition (4) a proviso that the intervals of cleansing for each
child should not be longer than three days. To effect this your Council
resolved that the London County Council be informed that this Authority are
willing to enter into an agreement in regard to the cleansing of school
children in the terms set out in their Education Officer's letter of the 22nd
December, 1910, provided that they will add to condition (4) the words " and
that the intervals between the cleansings of the child shall not be longer than
three days, except in case of illness or other reasonable cause of delay, Sunday
being regarded as a dies nov.
Communications were received from the London County Council stating,
in reply, that their Committee who have the matter under consideration were
unable to see their way to recommend their Council to vary the conditions
of the proposed agreement, inasmuch as the interval of three days between
the dates of cleansing is insufficient to enable a certificate to be given that the
cleansing has been effected, and expressing the hope that the Borough
Council would be able to accept the terms of the agreement as originally
submitted.
They further asked if the Borough Council would be prepared to allow
the County Council's school nurses to be present at (he cleansing station
whilst the process of the cleansing of the children is in operation, and stated
that the nurses will regulate the supply of cases to be sent to the cleansing
station, and in many cases compulsorily convey the children thereto, also that
it will be necessary for the nurses to work in co-operation with the bath
attendant, and that they will frequently need to be present when the cleansing
is being carried out, but will not interfere in any way with the arrangements
made by the Horough Council.
Your Council, on 1st March, 1911, were still of opinion that the intervals
of cleansing for each child should not be longer than three days, in order that
the child may be effectively freed from vermin, as if this regular attendance
is not insisted upon nits would be formed and developed, and this succession of
events might continue indefinitely.
With reference to the attendance of nurses at the cleansing station, your
Council saw no reason to object to the proposal provided that the necessary
frequency of the visits of the children is maintained.
With a view to meeting the point raised by the County Council as to the
issue of a certificate that the cleansing has been effected, your Council resolved,
on 1st March, 1911, that
(a) The London County Council be informed that arrangements can
be made for the Borough Council's cleansing station attendant to
issue certificates stating (1) the date a child first attends at the
station for cleansing, (2) the date or dates that it is necessary for
the child to again attend for cleansing, and (3) a final certificate
upon the completion of the cleansing, stating that the child has
been effectively cleansed.