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1905]
DISINFECTION.
Under this heading is included the disinfection as well as the cleansing
and stripping of rooms, the disinfection of schools, and the disinfection of
articles of clothing and household bedding which have become infected by an
epidemic disease.
Disinfection of Rooms.—As many as 2,393 rooms were disinfected, as
compared with 2,195 in the preceding year, after the occurrence of one of the
epidemic diseases. As in 1904, the disinfectant that has been employed has been
formaldehyde, used either in the form of vapour or as a solution. It is satisfactory
to be able to again report that the disinfection has been most
successful, and that no persons have become infected through any failure
of its disinfecting powers.
Cleansing and Stripping of Rooms.—552 rooms were cleansed and
stripped during the year, compared with 392 in 1904. This increase was
chiefly due to the fact that the number of rooms in which, so to speak, the
papers through their multiplicity, kept up the walls, were more than usual. It
is always inadvisable where the paper is much damaged, even after the most
thorough disinfection, to refrain from stripping the walls.
It might be said that in consequence of the adoption of disinfection by
formaldehyde very considerable savings have been effected in the Public
Health Department, so that the wages of disinfectors have fallen from £795 in
1900 per annum to £254 in 1905.
Disinfection of Schools—In consequence of the presence of Measles,
class rooms in the following schools were disinfected.
DISINFECTION.
Schools Disinfected:—
1st Quarter.
Gillespie Road.
2nd Quarter.
Hanover Street.
3rd Quarter.
Anglers' Gardens. St. Mark's, Grove Road.
4th Quarter.
Poole's Park. Canonbury Road.
St. Paul's, Dorset Street. Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Street.
Richard Street,