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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: Table CVIII. Showing the Disinfection of Rooms by Formaldehyde Gas after Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year 1910.

Table CVIII. Showing the Disinfection of Rooms by Formaldehyde Gas after Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year 1910.

Sanitary Inspectors' Districts.1234567891011121314Total 1910.1909
1st Q'rter28457242523142430131328641321589
2nd do.2450143423311418241924411344373594
3rd do.305193925312920442223362030409608
4th do.4975276934342724832648705751674543
Year131221571661071198486181801081759616617772834

Table: Table CIX. Showing the Cleansing, Spraying or Stripping of Rooms after Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year 1910.

Table CIX. Showing the Cleansing, Spraying or Stripping of Rooms after Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year 1910.

Sanitary Inspectors Districts.1234567891011121314Total 1910.1909
1st Q'rter1211157145148161318321021232209
2nd do.8764191411112129916191918284234
3rd do.2130111424413191172326138224175
4th do.13461743171723123197485020353329
Year54163331336937616087386412592771093947

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Disinfecting Station.— The amount of work done at the Disinfecting
Station was the heaviest on record, for no less than 83,786 large articles were
disinfected, as compared with 68,860 in 1909, 62,455 in 1908, and 30,083 in
J 907. The large increase in recent years is due to the fact that during the
last three, a firm which exports second-hand garments or condemned military
uniforms, mostly the latter, have had their goods disinfected by the Council,
paying for the work, to entitle them to a certificate, required by foreign or
Dominion Governments, that they have been disinfected.