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New Disinfecting Station.
November 23rd, 1904.
Memo by the Chief Inspector.
In view of the fact that the new station is now approaching
completion, and as the bulk of the work in connection with the
initiation of the scheme was carried out by the Committee now
retiring, it was thought advisable that before proceeding to
ordinary routine business the new Committee should inspect their
new building, and take possession of it at the commencement of
their career,
Moreover, the Committee's instructions are necessary for
the settlement of one or two small matters necessary for the full
completion of the machinery and appliances, which it is hoped
will be in full working order in the course of a few days.
The following particulars of the work of removing the old
station and providing for the new may be of interest :—
OLD STATION.
The old station was in itself totally inadequate, and quite
unsuitable for the purpose intended. It was a mere corner of
the old Vestry Yard, enclosed with a sort of boundary wall into
which had been fixed one of the very earliest of the Washington
Lyon type of disinfector. There were no modern or indeed any
other appliances about the station, or machinery, and no means
for keeping the infected side free or distinct from the clean or
disinfected side, neither were there any baths or lavatories for
the men to clean themselves.
Things went on in this casual sort of way down to the
middle of 1902, when the outbreak of Small Pox commenced,
and probably in consequence of the additional pressure put upon