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authority, all washable clothing should be boiled, and
other clothing should be sent to be stoved (by the local
Sanitary Authority), and then exposed freely to the open
air for several days.
One of the three tenements in the Shelter is used for the
disinfection of midwives and monthly nurses, who have been in
attendance on patients suffering from puerperal fever, or other
infectious disease. The infected person has a disinfectant bath,
while her clothing, bag, instruments, &c., are disinfected at
the Disinfecting Station, which is only a few yards distant from
the Shelter.
Mortuary.
The number of bodies removed to the Mortuary in
Sheepcote Lane was 253. Two hundred and thirty-six were
inquest cases, and 16 bodies removed for sanitary reasons from
crowded homes.