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As stated in previous reports, the bug once imported into the
house, quickly multiplying, is almost impossible to remove.
Cleanly people seem still to have to suffer for the sins of the
uncleanly, and until people can regard cleanliness as next to Godliness
there will be no final solution of the difficulty. Even with a
perfectly clean person, the unfortunate habit of the poorer class of
buying secondhand beds and furniture persists, and the introduction
of the bug into the house by this means adds to the difficulty.
It is a question whether we can really visualise a house so built
as to be absolutely free of cracks and crevices, and the furniture no
longer of a portable character but as part of the house and made of
such material as is actually bug-proof. Still, one can always strive
for an ideal, though at the time of the attempt it may elude one.
The disinfection of verminous clothing and bedding is carried
out by means of a Washington-Lyon's Steam Disinfector situated
at the Council's Sewage Farm..
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS, 1901 AND 1907.
A register is kept of all the workshops in the District, and at the
end of 1934 there were 74 workshops, 56 workplaces and 42 bakehouses
registered.