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Aug. 19th—Amersham Vale. Cancer. 1 bed, 2 pillows—disinfected.
,, 23rd—Gellatly Road. Cancer, 1 bed, 2 pillows, 1 bolster, 1 mattress—
disinfected.
Sept. 4th—Amersham Road. Cancer. 1 mattress, 3 pillows, 1 bolster—
disinfected.
4th—Tressillian Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 1 mattress, 4 pillows, 3 blankets,
6 odd articles- disinfected.
,, 26th—Windmill Lane. Cancer. 1 bed, 2 pillows, 1 sheet, 4 blankets, 5 odd
articles—disinfected.
Oct. 13th—Brookmill Road. Cancer. 1 bed—disinfected.
,, 15th—Drakefell Road. Cancer. 1 mattress, 4 pillows, 2 odd articles—
disinfected.
25th—Breakspears Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 1 mattress, 1 bolster, 4 pillows,
3 odd articles—disinfected,
,, 23th—Strickland Street. Cancer. 2 beds, 6 pillows, 1 bolster—disinfected.
Nov. 4th—Seymour Street. Cancer. 4 pillows, 2 sheets, 3 bolsters, 4 odd
articles—disinfected ; 2 mattresses—destroyed.
Dec. 3rd—Lewisham High Road. Cancer. 1 bed, 6 pillows, 2 bolsters, 6 odd
articles—disinfected.
,, 9th—Tressillian Road. Cancer. 1 mattress, 7 pillows, 1 bolster, 6 blankets,
8 odd articles—disinfected.
VERMINOUS PREMISES.
Sixty-two premises consisting of 125 rooms were fumigated during
the year.
MIDWIVES ACT.
Disinfection of wearing apparel, etc., was carried out in one case.
BOOKS DISINFECTED.
Seven hundred and ninety-four Library books collected from houses
where infectious diseases had occurred, were disinfected before being
put back into circulation.
With a view to further minimise the risk of spreading infection we
have the power to destroy books belonging to the public libraries which
come from infected houses.
Your Medical Officer now recommends that all books which are
much worn and soiled should be destroyed. All books taken from
houses in which smallpox has occurred should be destroyed. All
books which have been used in the sick room, if there is a possibility,
however remote, of their conveying infection, should be dealt with in
the same way.
With regard to volumes which, although taken from infected houses,
have but a very remote likelihood of having retained infection, the
following system of disinfection may be carried out. The book is
placed on end and opened as far as can be, and is subjected to the