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Infected Clothing and Laundries.
During 1906, the London County Council decided to ask
Parliament for powers to enable Sanitary Authorities in London
to prohibit the sending to laundries of infected clothing—no
such powers being contained in the Public Health London
Act, 1801, at least in respect of all infectious diseases. Section
68 of the 1801 Act, provides against the transmitting, removing
and exposing, without previous disinfection, articles that have
been exposed to infectious disease, i.e., the notifiable infectious
diseases as laid down in section 55. In this way, such important
infectious diseases as Measles, Chicken-pox, Whooping Cough,
Consumption, Glanders, Anthrax, &c., are not dealt with.
Further, it should be made definite that section 68 of the Act
has reference to laundries to which no infected clothing, without
previous disinfection, should be sent. From time to time,
outbreaks of infectious disease have been traced to laundries.
UNDERGROUND CONVENIENCES.
The conveniences have been kept under regular inspection
during 1006—the male conveniences by the male inspectors and
the female conveniences by the female inspectors.
The staff of attendants, individually and collectively, have given
satisfaction, and on March 15th, 1906, three temporary attendants
were transferred from the temporary to the permanent
list, viz., Miss Ward, temporary since May 4th, 1904 ;
Miss Swift, temporary since September, 12th, 1904; Mrs. Hul
bert, temporary since February 12th, 1904.
On November 3rd, 1906, the Stangate conveniences (male and
female) were closed in connection with the L.C.C. Tramways
Extension Schemes and handed over to the London County
Council for a sum of ^3,500, by powers given under