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Disinfection of rooms and bedding, on request, after cases of
non-notifiable disease (charge, of 5s.):—
Number of rooms fumigated 7
Number of articles disinfected by steam 156
Amount received in respect thereof £7 5s. Od.
Disinfection of Books.—The arrangements indicated in the
Report for 1930 regarding the disinfection of books issued through
the Middlesex County Council libraries in the district remain
unaltered. During the year, 141 books were so disinfected.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of patients treated in hospital during 1935 was
616, as against 622 during 1934. (This number comprises the
patients admitted during the year, together with those in hospital
on 1st January, 1935.) As will be seen, the number shows a slight
drop, although actually the h umber of patient days was increased,
owing to the abnormal number of diphtheria cases treated during
the year. As in previous years, the bulk of the patients were
admitted from Tottenham.

As this may be the last year in which the hospital is operated
on its present basis, the following figures might be of interest as
showing the increased use of the hospital which has taken place
within the last 10 years:—
1925.—103 cases admitted (average number in hospital on any
one day, 8.7; highest, 16; lowest, 2).
1929.—254 cases admitted (average number in hospital on any
one day, 20.5; highest, 40; lowest, 1).
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