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The original cost of the Station and machines was £3,200.
It will be seen, therefore, that a saving of £4,801 15s. 4d., a
sum that is considerably above the original cost of the Station,
has been effected by carrying out the work without the intervention
of a contractor (apart from the other advantages of
such a procedure).
In addition to the work set out in the above tables, the
bedding belonging to the Council was on 278 occasions lent out
to persons whose bedding had been removed for disinfection.
As soon as this has been effected it is returned, and the
Council's bedding is collected and brought back to the Disinfecting
Station, where, after being disinfected, it is returned to
the store-room, on the “clean" side of the building. In
this way the maximum results of disinfection are attained with
a minimum of inconvenience to the owners of articles requiring
disinfection, &c. A great deal of additional work is performed
by the staff in this connection, which does not appear in the
preceding tables.
Temporary Shelter or house Accommodation.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Section 60, Subsection
4) imposes an obligation on Sanitary Authorities to
provide accommodation for persons who have been compelled
to leave their dwellings on account of disinfection being carried
on therein.
The Reception Shelter in Sheepcote Lane was completed in
1904. In 1905 it was occupied by 33, in 1906 by 31 persons,
and during 1907 by 33 persons, whose homes were undergoing
disinfection after infectious disease. During 1907, in addition,
7 midwives and 12 nurses, who had been in attendance on cases
of puerperal fever, or in contact with cases of scarlet fever,
diphtheria, measles, and erysipelas, had the use of one of the
tenements for the purposes of personal disinfection.
One hundred and eighty-two persons, including laundry
workers, dressmakers, milk vendors, &c., whose occupation