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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

Hackney 1920

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920

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52
DISINFECTION.
(a) Rooms.—During 1920, there were 2,642 rooms fumigated
and 577 rooms cleansed in the Borough by the staff of the Public
Health Department. In these totals are included disinfections
after measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis, in addition to
those in connection with the present notifiable infectious diseases.
The number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month is
set out in the following table:—

Table: Number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month during 1920.

Number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month during 1920.

Month.Rooms fumigatedRooms cleansed.
January22848
February18230
March23930
April15528
May16029
June16837
July15629
August15036
September23940
October34764
November34997
December269109
Total2,642577

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(b) Articles of Clothing, Furniture, etc.—The number of
articles under this head disinfected during last year was 14,548.
This is an increase of 1,419 upon the number disinfected
during 1919. A table is here given showing details of the articles
disinfected each month.