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St. Giles—Removed in covered vans and burnt in a destructor.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields—Sent to contractor who does the disinfection.
Strand—A destructor has been in use since 1885.
Holborn—Sent to contractor.
Clerkenwell—Occasionally burnt in the wharf in Commercial-road.
St. Luke—An apparatus has been erected and has been in operation for twelve months.
Shoreditch—Burnt in a destructor which is under the same roof as the disinfector.
Bethnal-green—Burnt at the stone-yard after being saturated with paraffin. No special
apparatus.
Whitechapel—Burnt in the destructor.
St. George-in-the-East—Formerly burnt at contractor's yard in Limehouse district. On the
last occasion bedding was burnt in a yard in the parish.
Limehouse—Board has approved plans for the erection of an incinerator.
Mile-end Old-town—Burnt in a destructor.
Poplar—Burnt in the open air on land adjoining the disinfecting apparatus. No special
apparatus.
St. Saviour, Southwark—Burnt in an open stove in the yard after being subjected for some
hours to temperature of 280° F. in the disinfecting oven.
St. George, Southwark—Burnt in the furnace of a Fraser disinfecting oven.
Rotherhithe—Mode of destruction left to sanitary inspector to determine.
Lambeth —Burnt in a furnace in the stone-yard.
Battersea—Burnt in the vestry's destructor.
Wandsworth—Clapham possesses a special furnace in the stone-yard. Putney has made no
provision, but contractor for disinfection could destroy articles.
Camberwell—A destructor is in course of erection.
Woolwich—Burnt in the dust destructor.
Plumstead—Burnt on the open ground near the river.
The following statement shows the shelters which existed in the several districts in 1893—
1. St. George, Hanover-square—The shelter consists of a basement with two rooms and a
water-closet in the yard. It is provided with a fireplace, chairs, bedstead, and crockery. There is no
special attendant. It has been in existence nine months, and has been used three or four times. It
is said that difficulty is experienced in inducing people to use the accommodation.
2. Westminster (St. Margaret and St. John)—Two rooms, with four beds in each, have been
provided in the house of the mortuary keeper. These have been in use for three years, and no
difficulty is experienced in getting people to go there. Similar provision will be made in connection
with the new mortuary and coroner's court which is being built.-
3. Marylebone—The existing accommodation is a room in the basement of the vestry-hall, provided
with a fireplace, crockery, chair-bedstead, table and chairs. There is no special attendant. It
has been in existence a few months, and has been used three or four times. It is said that difficulty
is experienced in inducing people to use it. Much improved accommodation is under the consideration
of the vestry.
4. Hampstead—A two-storey two-roomed house has been provided in the stone-yard, Litho*road.
The ground floor and upper floor are approached by separate entrances, and each has a watercloset
in connection with it. Each room is furnished with a fireplace, a table, chairs and crockery.
This shelter is in the care of the man in charge of the stone-yard; it has been in existence three
years, and has only been used once. It is stated that difficulty is experienced in inducing people to
make use of it.
5. Clerkenwell—A three-storey six-roomed house has been provided. It has one water-closet.
The rooms are furnished with fireplaces, chairs and crockery, and in one ground-floor room there are
two beds for children to lie on. The caretaker lives next door. This accommodation has been in
existence one year, and has been used ten or twelve times. It is said that difficulty is experienced in
inducing people to use it.
This accommodation is shared by St. Luke, the Charterhouse, Staple and Furnival's Inns.
6. St. Luke—Shares the accommodation provided by the Clerkenwell Vestry.
7. St. George-in-the-East—A two-storey four-roomed house has been provided. The house
has a back yard, in which is situated the water-closet. Each room is furnished with a fireplace,
chairs and crockery. The gardener of an open space adjoining is the only available attendant. The
house is not quite ready, and has never been used.
8. St. Saviour, Southwark—Two rooms have been provided at the top of a house in Nelsonsquare
and belonging to one of the sanitary inspectors. They are suitably furnished as bed-rooms,
and there are stoves of the ordinary bed-room type for cooking. The sanitary authority provides
crockery. These rooms have only been used once, and it is said difficulty is experienced in inducing
people to temporarily leave the homes in which they have been dwelling.
9. St. Olave—The only provision is a room in the stone-yard, recognized as altogether inadequate.
10. Wandsworth—Putney—One room has been provided at the vestry's new wharf on the
Putney-embankment. The room is now furnished as a kitchen, and bed furniture has not yet been
supplied. The house is now occupied by the clerk of the wharf. It has not yet been used as a shelter.
Clapliam—One room furnished as a kitchen has been provided in a lean-to building at the vestry's
stone-yard. No provision for sleeping has been made.
11. Greenwich—A house has been provided for the whole district. It is not yet fitted up
for use.
12. Woolwich—A house has been provided containing five bed-rooms (two furnished), a
dining-room, a kitchen, and a bath-room. There are also in the house two rooms occupied by a