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producing a card given to them by the school teacher or nurse and entitling them
to a course of 3 baths were admitted; partly also it is accounted for by the fact
that the Education Committee of the L.C.C. established a cleansing centre at the
Fulteney Street School (Soho) at which a certain number of school children were
treated. That the children on the whole are cleaner, those who are verminous
being fewer, may to a small extent have led to a reduction in the numbers. The
most careful supervision of the homes of the children was exercised by the
women inspectors and, wherever the necessity arose, disinfection of premises, bed
and other clothes was carried out. The number of notices served with regard to
verminous rooms has already been mentioned (p. 69).
The final decision to pay the Borough Council a fixed sum of 2/. per head
for children treated over a fixed period at the baths at the request of their officers,
was arrived at by the L.C.C. during the year. The Council of St. Marylebone
had not finally decided to accept the offer unconditionally at the end of 1910,
The following tables show the number of persons . adults and childrenbathed
each month during 1910, and the number of persons treated each year
since 1898. The numbers of adults bathed, it will be noted, fell nearly 2,000. For
this reduction there seems to be no sufficient reason, as the baths were as open
to adults as in previous years and no alteration in the system, such as had been
made in the case of the school children, was introduced.
CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACT, 1897