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VERMINOUS PERSONS' BATHS.
During 1914, the total number of adults using the Baths was 7,934 (males, 5,555;
females, 2,379). The children bathed numbered 1,866, 623 being boys and 1,243
girls.
The addresses given by the adults included Salvation Army Shelter 3,374 and
lodging houses 494.
In 1,687 instances no address was given, and in 406 (274 males, 132 females)
the applicants stated they had come from the Church Army. The Portman House
was given as an address by 247 females.
The London County Council still continues to send the majority of the children
who attend, making payment in each case for the treatments. The payments
received amounted to £87 12s. 0d., and there was in addition 15s. paid on account of
cleansing of persons sent by the London County Council inspectors from common
lodging houses.
During the days when school children were being cleansed, one of the school
nurses of the London County Council was in attendance, and in any case in which
cutting of the hair seemed to be necessary, carried this out.
The practice of visiting the homes of all children sent for cleansing, and
arranging for the bathing of other members of the family and the disinfection of
bedding, etc., wherever possible, was continued.
The usual tables showing the extent to which the baths have been used year by
year since they were opened are given below:—
CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACT, 1897.