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DISINFECTANTS.
The special disinfectant mentioned in my
last Annual Report, resulting from a series of
experiments of mine conducted at the City
Laboratory, Golden Lane, in 1894, has continued
to furnish a powerful deodorant—and
germicide—at a fractional cost as compared with
proprietary articles supplied by contractors in
previous years.
By its use we have been enabled to cope
with nuisances arising from the public roadways
(especially those laid with wood)—the
catch-pits—gullies—ventilators in connection
with the public sewers—and foul drains, on a
very much larger scale and with better results
than in former years.
The relief to the ratepayers by its adoption
has been certainly not less than from ,£1,500
to £1,600 a year, after all charges incidental
to the erection of the requisite plant, interest
upon cost of the same, provision for depreciation,
&c., have been considered.
In 1897 alone we effected an economy of no