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Legal proceedings were taken against a man and his wife
in Pimlico for having failed to report a case of Scarlet
Fever, to which they had not called in a medical attendant;
they were convicted and fined altogether seven shillings
and twenty-five shillings costs.
Certificates are now sent to the Head Teachers of Schools
after disinfection has been carried out in houses where there
are children who go to school, so that the Head Teachers
may know when to re-admit the children from those houses.
Disinfectants have been distributed to the public when
required, and personal instructions given as to their proper
use. The number of articles of clothing, &c., disinfected
was considerably less than that in 1893, when the epidemic
of Scarlet Fever was prevalent.
At the request of your Committee of Works, I had a
series of Bacteriological investigations made into the power
of various disinfectants to destroy organisms, the result of
which confirmed the advice I gave to the Vestry many
years ago, to use Alkalised Gas Creosote as the general
disinfectant, and not to distribute Carbolic Acid to the
public.