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You considered that facilities should be offered to the County Council for
the cleansing of persons infested with vermin, and on 16th March, 1910, your
Council resolved that the Clerk to the London County Council be informed
that this Authority are prepared to cleanse any persons sent from common
lodging houses in the Borough, and, so far as is found to be possible, those who
may be sent from neighbouring Boroughs, at a charge of 6d. per person per
attendance.
The London County Council then wrote stating that a scheme had been
formulated by them by which it is proposed that the Metropolitan Borough
Councils should undertake to cleanse inmates of common lodging houses in
their own districts free of charge, and to cleanse inmates sent from common
lodging houses in the neighbouring Boroughs for a charge of is. a head.
Your Council understood that the scheme had been submitted to all the
Metropolitan Borough Councils with a view to co-operation.
At the present time this Authority cleanse inhabitants of St. Pancras at
their station free of charge. If this suggestion of the London County Council
is adopted, Is. a head will be received for persons who may be sent from other
Boroughs, instead of 6d. per attendance per person sent from any common
lodging houses in any Borough as previously proposed.
Your Council, on the 1st June last, expressed the opinion that as "per
head " might mean unlimited attendances, the number of attendances covered
by the proposed charge should be limited, and on 27th July your Council
resolved that this Council continue to cleanse at their Personal Cleansing
Station, free of charge, any persons from common lodging houses in the
Borough, and do agree with the London County Council to cleanse thereat any
persons sent from common lodging houses in other Boroughs at a charge of
1s. per attendance.
Your Council then received from the Solicitor to the London County
Council a draft agreement which he prepared in connection with the matter,
and which he stated he would be glad to hear had been approved by this
Authority. This agreement contained numerous restrictions.
In accordance with the Borough Council's decision, verminous inmates from
common lodging; houses outside St. Paucras will be received and cleansed at
the Personal Cleansing Station upon the written order of Officials of the
London County Council at a charge of 1s. per attendance, and persons coming
from common-lodging houses in the Borough will continue to be cleansed free,
whether sent by the County Council Officers or not.
Your Council did not see the necessity for the formal agreement, such as
proposed by the Solicitor to the London County Council, and therefore resolved
on the 12th April, 1911, that the Solicitor to the London County Council be
informed that the Borough Council are quite prepared to carry out the
cleansing of persons from common lodging houses, as decided by them on the
27th July, 1910, but see no necessity for entering into the agreement.