[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Olave].

  • St. Olave (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Olave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 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;