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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1904

Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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Table: Table CXIV.Showing theDisinfectionofRoomsaf'er Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year1904.

Table CXIV.

Showing theDisinfectionofRoomsaf'er Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year1904.

Sanitary Inspectors' Districts.1234567891011121314Total 1904.1903
1st Q'rter2629123337311722432734371925392474
2nd do.2126265341293331515738323426498598
3rd do.3340417329452142685250524938633527
4th do.3356557628483633733364633935672422
Year11315113423513515310712823516918618414112421952021

Table: Table CXV.Showing theCleansingandStrippingofRoomsafter Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year1904.

Table CXV.

Showing theCleansingandStrippingofRoomsafter Infectious Disease, in the Sanitary Inspectors' Districts, during the year1904.

Sanitary Inspectors Districts.1234567891011121314Total 1904.1903
1st Q'rter. .2611116....14....11..167735
2nd do.....6819......125418..13..1419830
3rd do.8..8....20......4..11....5145
4th do.6117....611131..63..26626
Year1439920114211256922638..32392136

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WORK DONE AT THE DISINFECTING STATION.
There were 2 7,868 large articles disinfected in the steam chambers at
Seven Sisters Road, compared with 23,748 that were treated in 1903. The
present return brings up the total number of large articles disinfected to
261,924. No record has ever been kept of the enormous number of small
articles, such as handkerchiefs, stockings, towels, etc., that are disinfected, as
they are generally placed loosely in bags and disinfected together as one lot.
If it had, the number of different articles would have run probably into
millions.
A list of the principal articles that have been sterilized is given in the
following table.