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This bath, moreover, would be a useful and desirable
adjunct to the ordinary purposes of the shelter.
The Board last year gave its permission for bedding and
clothing infected with vermin at the Common Lodging Houses
to be disinfected in the Board's steam apparatus; also for such
bedding and clothing in any tenement in the District, provided
the tenement was also thoroughly cleansed.
By the third Act, any person retaining or receiving for
hire or reward more than one infant under the age of five
years for the purpose of maintenance, must give notice thereof
to the Local Authority. Such infants may not be kept in
insanitary or overcrowded dwellings, and must be properly
attended. In case of death of such an infant, notice must be
given to the coroner of the district.
The London County Council is the Local Authority for
London. The Act could probably have been more efficiently
administered in London by the sanitary authorities.
As the Vaccination Bill, now before the House of
Commons, is very unsatisfactory, I may mention some points
that have been urged at meetings and a conference of Public
Health Societies:
(1). That the age limit within which a child should be
vaccinated after birth should be six months, as in
Scotland;
(2). That evidence of efficient vaccination should be
afforded on admission of a child to a public
elementary school;