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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT.
A Washington Lyon Disinfecting Apparatus has been supplied, and
is at the Board's depot, waiting to be fixed in the building, which at
the present time is being erected on those premises. Two closed
vans have also been procured, one to fetch infected articles, and the
other to return them home. Each van is drawn by a horse, and
takes the place of the old iron vehicle dragged along by men. Until
the new premises are completed the best possible use is being made
of the present disinfecting oven in Bickmore Street, and one of the
new vans is used, its interior being disinfected every time before
taking the disinfected articles home. Space and accommodation at
the existing apparatus will not allow both van; being used.
The following figures give the number of premises disinfected, and
the number of times the Board's oven was used lor the two parishes,
some thousands of articles being baked.
Private Premises. Board's Oven.
Poplar 471 393
Bromley 634 612
Total 1105 1005
Disinfectants are still supplied on the orders of the Inspectors, and
a record kept of their distribution.
of the character of the Water of the River Thames, states:—"Of The 516
tons of oxygen required to oxidize the matters in solution in the area of maximum
impurity, only about 52 tons are required by the London effluent, so that it is
evident that the multitudinous other sources of pollution, such as sewage outfalls,
docks, factories, floating population, flotsam and jetsam, &c., are very largely
responsible for the total impurities present in the river."