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The stations are under the control of the Public Health
Department, and are visited frequently each week by the Chief
Sanitary Inspector, who exercises general supervision over the
work done.
At 49, Northampton Road provision is made for the housing
and accommodation of families during the disinfection of their
premises after infectious disease, and for the reception of smallpox
contacts during the incubation period.
The persons brought to this shelter are cared for by the disinfector
and his wife, who live in the house.
It was used in 1910 by one family from Finsbury (5 persons)
and 6 families from Holborn (21 persons). The Holborn Metropolitan
Borough is allowed to use this shelter by a resolution
of the Finsbury Borough Council passed at their meeting on
the 19th July, 1910.
The Borough has two steam disinfectors—a Washington-Lyons
high-pressure steam apparatus and a Thresh Current steam
machine.
For the disinfection of rooms, formic aldehyde gas, liberated
by an Alformant lamp burning 30 tablets per 1,000 cubic feet,
is used, or sulphur fumigation, or a spray of chloride of lime
dissolved in water and having a strength of 1.2 per cent., whichever
is considered appropriate.
During the year 691 separate rooms were disinfected, of which
154 were for measles, 83 after notification of phthisis and 39
after death from phthisis.
In addition, bedding and mattresses were steam disinfected for
the following institutions:
The City of London Lying-in Hospital, the Claremont Hall
Creche, St. Barnabas' House, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Mark's
Hospital, and St. Mary's Mission Hall.