Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1914 page 82

Hackney 1914

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1914

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List of Combined Drainage, &c.—continued.

Date of Reference.	Situation of Premises.
1st October	90, 92, 96, 98, Mare Street.
10th	27, Hockley Street and 5, Ribstone Street.
13th	105, London Road.
30th	13 and 17, Ballance Road.
31st	15,
2nd November	4 and 5, Clarence Terrace.
20th „	101, Median Road.
20th „	Factory at rear of 62, Overbury Street.
1st December	123, 125, 127, 129, Forest Road.

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DISINFECTION.
(a) Rooms.—During 1914 there were 2,500 rooms fumigated
and 714 rooms cleansed in the Borough by the staff of the Public
Health Department. In these totals are included the disinfections
after measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis, in addition to
those in connection with notifiable infectious diseases.
The number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month is
set out in the following table:—
(b) Articles of Clothing, Furniture, &c.—The number of articles
under this head disinfected during last year was 22,259. This is an
increase of 3,436 upon the number disinfected during 1913, and is
due to the increased number of cases of notifiable infectious disease
C???ing in the Borough during the year.

Table: Number of Rooms Fumigated and Cleansed each Monthduring 1914.

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Number of Rooms Fumigated and Cleansed each Monthduring 1914.

Month.	Rooms Fumigated.	Rooms Cleansed.	Remarks.
January	315	90	The method of fumigation is by burning sulphur. After fumigation the rooms to be cleansed are stripped of their wall-paper and cleansed with a solution of carbolic acid. The ceilings are afterwards whitened.
February	190	56
March	151	43
April	168	48
May	165	47
June	126	36
July	164	47
August	166	47
September	273	78
October	287	82
November	255	73
December	236	67
Total	2,502	714

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Table: Number of Rooms Fumigated and Cleansed each Monthduring 1914.

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Table: Number of Rooms Fumigated and Cleansed each Monthduring 1914.

Table: List of Combined Drainage, &c.—continued.