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These fees are repaid to the Sanitary Authority by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The arrangement for the bacteriological examination and report
upon doubtful cases of Diphtheria and Enteric Fever, was renewed by
the Council with the Clinical Research Association of No. 1 Southwark
Street, London Bridge.
The number of examinations made by them during the year
ending 28th December, 1907, was 163; 150 of them being for
Diphtheria and 13 for Enteric Fever, the result being that 51 were
found to be positive and 112 negative :—-
Positive. Negative. Total.
Diphtheria 45 105 150
Enteric 6 7 13
51 112 163
At a cost of £35 17s. Od.
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection is carried out at the Council's Yard by means of a
steam apparatus (Washington-Lyons), in which all articles of clothing
and bedding are disinfected. Such infected articles which would be
destroyed by steam, viz., leather goods, boots, furs, books, etc., are
disinfected by formic aldehyde, volotised in an alformant lamp in a
specially constructed zinc-lined chamber. There are two vans
employed, one used for collecting infected articles, the other for
returning them after disinfection is completed. With very few
exceptions, all disinfection is carried out by the staff of the Council,
and no charge is made.
The number of rooms disinfected by the Council's staff during
the year was 1,691. The number of articles of bedding, clothing, &c.,