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Phthisis, though in the Highgate Infirmary a modified form of
open air treatment is being carried out.
5. General Sanitary Measures.—Include the abolition of
overcrowding, improving the housing conditions and the opening
up of confined areas.
6. Disinfection.—After a death the bedding and clothing
are disinfected, and the premises fumigated, washed down, and
re-papered.
When a case is notified, periodic disinfection is offered and
periodic cleansing advised.
7. Bacteriological Examination of the sputum in
suspected cases is done at the expense of the Borough.
DISINFECTION.
There are two disinfecting stations in the district-one at 49,
Northampton Road, and the other at Warwick Place, Whitecross
Street. At each station there is a mortuary and a Coroner's
Court.
There is a shelter for suspicious infectious cases during the
incubation period, at 49, Northampton Road. It is also used
for the reception of families while their rooms are being
disinfected after infectious disease.
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 tabloids 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 12 per cent., whichever
is considered appropriate.
During the year 945 separate rooms were disinfected.
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