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House Inspector of the County Council, as it was found that when persons
were informed that they would have to obtain this they did not return for
cleansing.
A communication was received from the County Council, in reply, stating
that, after very careful consideration of all the facts, they were prepared, so
far as the Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras was concerned, to adopt for
the next six months, as an experiment, the undermentioned variation of the
scheme of cleansing hitherto in vogue, viz.:—
" The Borough Council to cleanse forthwith any applicant who claims to
" be an inmate of a common lodging house, and the Council will, on
" the receipt of a claim from the Borough Council, pay 1s. for each
" person cleansed who can be identified as coming from a common
" lodging house situated outside the Borough, the names and
" addresses of the persons to be supplied to the Council immediately
" the cleansing has been carried out."
As the proposal of the County Council ensured payment for persons cleansed
only when identified as coming from lodging houses situated outside the
Borough, your Council considered it necessary for the per-ons attending to
produce some evidence which would so identify them, and they, therefore,
suggested that the admission cards in use at the Station be supplied to the
Superintendents of common lodging houses adjoining the Borough, so that
they might give them to any of the inmates of their lodging houses who
desired to come to St. Pancras for cleansing.
The County Council were therefore informed, on the 24th April, that if the
suggested use of these cards be agreed to, this Authority were prepared to
carry out the proposed experiment.
Subsequently a reply was received from the County Council stating that, to
meet the wishes of this Authority, they had arranged for keepers and deputies
of common lodging houses outside St. Pancras to be supplied with vouchers,
signed by their Inspector, authorising the bearer to be cleansed, and for the
Inspector to call at the Council's cleansing station each week for the purpose
of obtaining particulars of those persons from common lodging houses outside
the Borough who had been cleansed. A payment of 1s. per person so cleansed
to be made by the County Council.
This proposal was agreed to, and the County Council were so informed on
the 12th June. The sum of £5 8s. 0d. has been received in respect of this
work up to the 31st March, 1013.