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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT.
Rooms and Articles (Infectious and Verminous) Disinfected.

Other articles also passed through the Council's apparatus, from
the Shelter, Glaucus Street:—Disinfectors' clothing, overalls, towels,
clothing of verminous children, etc., to the number of 14,880, and 8,298
articles of clothing from verminous persons were disinfected, making a
total of 46,170 articles.
99 articles were destroyed at the Council's apparatus on request.
At the request of the London County Council, the Council undertook
to disinfect old tramway uniforms from the Poplar and Bow Tramway
Depots, at a charge of 2d. per overcoat and Id. for other garments.
ELECTROLYTIC DISINFECTANT FLUID.
At the seven depots the electrolytic fluid was still in great demand
by the public.
On account of the increasing demands for the fluid, the wooden
structure which was erected in 1912 has been demolished and replaced
by a larger building of reinforced concrete with a lighted roof, and the
site his been purchased. The building is 60 feet long, 30 feet wide, and
12 feet to the eaves. It contains a lobby for employees' garments,
messroom and lavatory accommodation. An additional plant, consisting
of five 30-amp. graphode electrolysers, has been purchased from Messrs.
Mather & Piatt, Manchester. At the end of the year 1925, I presented
to the Public Health and Housing Committee a special report upon
Twenty Years' Working of the Electrolytic Disinfectant Plant of
Poplar," in which the work of the old and new plants is fully described.
During the year 1926, 65,317 1/2 gallons were manufactured and broken
down to 130,635 gallons for distribution.