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Disinfecting Station.—During the past year a new disinfecting
station and shelter has been built and equipped for the Borough on the
Council's new wharf in Lots-road by the Underground Electric
Railways Company of London, Limited, at a cost of about £3500, the
Company taking over the site of the old station, with the former wharf.
The station is built on designs by myself and Mr. Grant, Chief
Sanitary Inspector, and consists of the usual clean and infected "sides"
and van sheds, together with an incinerator furnace for destroying
infected bedding. There is a men's mess room, w.c. and bath room on
the ground floor, whilst an upper storey over the van sheds, mess room,
and incinerator, contains 2 bedrooms and a kitchen living room, to be
used for the purposes of a shelter for people who are displaced from
their homes owing to their rooms being fumigated. Appurtenant to
the shelter rooms are a bath room, w.c. and sink room for the use of
the occupants; whilst an additional bath room is provided for the use of
persons who wish to avail themselves of the Cleansing of Persons Act,
and have their verminous wearing apparel disinfected, whilst they
cleanse their persons in a hot bath. The buildings have been well and
strongly constructed, the walls of the disinfecting rooms, w.c.'s, and
bath rooms being lined with opalite, whilst the floors are cemented.
The Company has also provided white enamelled steel tube raoks for
the station. The shelter has been furnished by the Council at a cost
of about £100.