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Bethnal Green 1910

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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APPENDIX 0 (2).
Forty-two casks of Sanitas Powder, making up
into 2,940 packets, have been distributed from the
offices.
Three hundred and twenty one-pint bottles of
Sanitas Fluid and one hundred and forty four onepint
tins of Izal Fluid have also been distributed from
the offices.
Half-a-ton of Sulphur in the form of Sulphur
Candles has been used in the disinfection of rooms
throughout the year. Half-a-gallon of Formaldehyde.
40 per cent, solution, has been used in spraying the
walls of rooms, five pounds of formalin tablets have
been used for fumigating rooms in certain cases
instead of Sulphur Candles.
Three-and-a-half gallons of Carbolic Acid and
five gallons of Creocide were used for disinfection in
connection with cases of Enteric Fever.
APPENDIX P.
Smoke Observation.
Shafts under observation 100
Number of hours spent in observation 400
„ Intimation Notices served 22
„ Statutory „ „ —