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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX M. (2).
Fifty casks of Sanitas Powder, making up into
3,500 packets, have been distributed from the Public
Health Department.
Seven hundred and twenty-one pint bottles of
Sanitas Fluid, and two hundred and eighty-eight onepint
tins of Izal Fluid have also been distributed.
Half-a-ton of Sulphur Candles have been used in
the disinfection of rooms throughout the year. One
gallon of Formaldehyde Solution (40 percent) bas been
used in spraying the walls of rooms and five pounds of
Formalin Tablets have been used for fumigating rooms
and articles in the Formalin Chamber.
Ten gallons of Creocide also have been used for
disinfecting purposes.
APPENDIX N.
Smoke Nuisance Observation.
No of Shafts under observation 100
No. of hours occupied in observation 305
No. of intimation notices served 26
No. of statutory notices served 3
No. of prosecutions nil.