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Machine, Wanless Road. The means adopted proved efficient,
as no single secondary or return case of Smallpox arose in connection
with inefficient disinfection of any of the infected houses or
clothing and bedding—a most satisfactory statement to be able to
make.
The rooms from which the Smallpox patients were removed
have all been fumigated with sulphur, and sprayed with formalin
or per-chloride of mercury solutions, and the other rooms, passages,
etc., in connection with infected houses have also been
sprayed with formalin. During the epidemic, 514 infected rooms,
and 2217 other rooms, have been in this way dealt with (not to
mention passages and staircases), and the amount of bedding,
clothing, etc., removed and disinfected with steam at Wanless
Road will be appreciated from the subjoined statement: —