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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 1922

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922

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56
After Care.—Every effort has been made by the Care Committee
to carry out every duty possible under existing circumstances.
DISINFECTION.
(a) Rooms.—During 1922 there were 1,902 rooms fumigated
and 578 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.

Table: The number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month is set out in the following table:—Number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month during1922.

The number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month is set out in the following table:—

Number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month during1922.

Month.Rooms fumigated.Rooms cleansed.
January19080
February15450
March17846
April14145
May18634
June11150
July14744
August12639
September12550
October16349
November20249
December17942
Total1902578

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(b) Articles of Clothing, Furniture, etc.—The number of
articles under this head disinfected during last year was 12,711.
This is a decrease of 8,216 upon the number disinfected during
1921. A table is here given showing details of the articles disinfected
each month.