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case with a view to eliciting the source of infection. If the case
is to be left at home he reports the home conditions to your
Medical Officer who authorises or refuses to allow isolation at
home. Generally speaking an effort is made to remove all cases
to hospital, although owing to stress on hospital accommodation
during the latter months of the year a small proportion of these
cases had to be left at home. If the case is removed to hospital,
the infected articles, bedding, etc., are removed to the Council's
Disinfecting Station at White Hart Lane, the rooms are disinfected,
and contacts are excluded from school in accordance
with the regulations of the London County Council. If the case
is isolated at home, a card of instructions regarding isolation is
given, and the process of disinfection is delayed until the
medical attendant certifies that the case is free from infection.
After diphtheria the contacts attend at the Town Hall for
examination and for swabbing whenever, in the opinion of your
Medical Officer, this is necessary.
By an arrangement made with the Royal Arsenal, the names of
persons employed therein residing in a house where infectious
disease has occurred are sent to the Arsenal daily. Certificates
of disinfection are issued after removal to hospital or on recovery
of a case nursed at home. In the latter case, certificates of
efficient home isolation are also issued to workmen if the Medical
Officer of Health is satisfied that the conditions are satisfactory.
Disinfection.
Number of rooms disinfected after ordinary fevers 660
Do. do. Tuberculosis 384
Do. do. Verminous cases 58
Number of rooms stripped after Small-pox 6
Do. do. for any other reason —
Total number of articles disinfected 26,380