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Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
A letter having been received from the Clerk to the School Board for London, drawing
attention to section 55 (4) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and stating that a
difficulty had arisen by the teachers not knowing when they might safely re-admit children
from a house where a case of infectious disease had occurred, and suggesting that an uniform
system should be adopted throughout the Metropolis, whereby the Medical Officers of Health
would grant to the parents a certificate stating that the premises in which the disease
occurred had been disinfected, which certificate would be handed to the head teachers, who
would thus have some guarantee that they might re-admit excluded children to school, and
asking that this Yestry would give such directions as would ensure such a certificate being
given in all cases when the disinfection of the premises had been completed ;
It was Resolved—That the Medical Officer of Health be instructed to prepare and
issue to every head teacher in the parish a circular letter, stating that in future no child
who had been notified as living in an infected house should be permitted to return until the
time stated on the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health had fully expired, and that no
certificate should be valid and accepted unless issued by him.
On 12th March, 1895, the Vestry Resolved to purchase No. 15, Cathay Street, to be
used as a temporary shelter under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The subject of the provision of public street conveniences having been under
consideration of a Committee of the Vestry,
The Vestry Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee, to approach the
Vestry of Bermondsey with the view of their joining this Vestry in the expense of the
construction and maintenance of an underground convenience for men and women on the
old Mill Pond site, in lieu of the present urinal in Southwark Park Road, near the "Queen
Charlotte" P.H., and the following gentlemen were appointed as delegates from this