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Cemetery Accommodation for Eltham. In 1910 I reported
that there was burial accommodation for Eltham parish
for five years only, and recommended the provision of a
small Cemetery with a Crematorium. I also recommended
that the Council should endeavour to further any project by
which the means of communication with the Woolwich
Cemetery might be improved.
CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS PERSONS.
45. The station for cleansing verminous persons was
opened in November, 1906. During 1912 it was used by
430 persons, compared with 257, 262, 408, 590, and 509, in
the five previous years. The users were 92 adults (viz., 2
females and 90 males) and 338 children (viz., 178 females and
160 males).
3,376 articles were disinfected, and the disinfector was
used 430 times. The adults came mainly from common
lodging-houses, and the children were mostly sent from
County Council Schools.
An agreement was entered into with the London County
Council, dated August 21st, 1911, to allow the London County
Council to use the Borough Council Cleansing Station for
cleansing school children. The Station is reserved for school
children on Tuesday and Friday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
girls being cleansed between 9 and 1, and boys in the afternoon.
The Borough Council must properly cleanse the
children and their clothes to the reasonable satisfaction of
the London County Council, the children cleansed not to
exceed 10 in one day or 20 in one week.
The London County Council pays to the Borough Council
2s. for each child cleansed, such sum to include all attendances
made by the child in one month when repeated baths