Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The above Table deals with articles which have been disinfected. The actual number of occupancies disinfected during 1904, was as follows:—
Varicella | Small-pox | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Enteric Fever | Puerperal Fever | Disinfection by request. | Measles. | Phthisis | Totals | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | - | - | 16 | 10 | 5 | - | 2 | 3 | 21 | 57 |
February | 2 | — | 19 | 5 | 2 | - | 4 | 14 | 23 | 69 |
March | - | 2 | 24 | 5 | — | - | 2 | 32 | 17 | 82 |
April | — | 2 | 34 | 7 | 5 | — | 2 | 10 | 14 | 74 |
May | 1 | 1 | 34 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 54 | 10 | 125 |
June | — | 4 | 28 | 13 | 1 | - | 4 | 90 | 13 | 153 |
July | — | 6 | 24 | 12 | 2 | - | 2 | 47 | 9 | 102 |
August | — | 5 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 5 | - | 7 | 60 |
September | — | — | 40 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 89 |
October | — | - | 38 | 10 | 5 | - | - | 18 | 15 | 86 |
November | - | - | 26 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 55 | 17 | 120 |
December | — | - | 12 | 3 | 7 | — | 4 | 69 | 14 | 109 |
3 | 20 | 319 | 122 | 41 | 6 | 35 | 407 | 173 | 1126 |
In disinfection after infections disease we use Formic Aldehyde
gas (30 tabloids to every 1,000 cubic feet). After Phthisis we
spray the room with Chloride of Lime (1-2 per cent). For
disinfection of verminous rooms Sulphur is used. When necessary
we employ Lingner's Grlyco-Formal apparatus for schools, etc.
By whatever method gaseous disinfection is practised it may
prove ineffectual on account of the fact that what is required is that
the disinfectant should be applied directly to infected surfaces of a
room. It is therefore better, wherever practicable, to apply the
disinfectant by washing or spraying. Accordingly we have adopted
the spray method in certain cases, and disinfectant solution (chloride
of lime, 1-2 per cent.) is sprayed on to walls, floors, etc. Thorough
and wet cleansing of infected surfaces is the desideratum.