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New Disinfecting Station.—The time is shortly arriving when
the Borough Council will have to take into serious consideration the
provision of a new building to serve as a disinfecting station, a
cleansing station, a reception house, a mortuary, a general stores
for the Public Health Department, and possibly a Coroner's Court.
The cleansing station is required for the cleansing of the persons,
clothes, and belongings, of those affected with the itch or other
body vermin. At present Finsbury residents requiring such
cleansing have to procced to the St. Pancras station. There is
an arrangement between the two Councils by which Finsbury pays
Is. for each person cleansed.
The reception house is necessary for the reception of those
families living in one, or, at most, two rooms, whose tenements
are being disinfected after infectious disease, or who are being kept
under close supervision during the incubation period of a serious
infectious disease.
In connection with these proposals, the following brief notes
are submitted.—
Disinfecting Station.—The disinfecting station should, if
possible have :—
1. A sufficiently wide and easy approach from the road.
2. Separate entrance and exit gateways.
3. A raised floor and covered place for the sorting out of
clothes and other materials sent for disinfection, for
inspecting them, too, and loosening them.
4. A disinfecting machine, having on its "dirty" side
sufficient storage for material awaiting disinfection, coal
stores, boiler stores, and a small platform trolley, and on
its " clean " side a small platform trolley, and a shelter
for disinfected goods. The "clean" side should be
clearly and decisively cut off from the " dirty " side.
5. Separate covered-in stalls for the van and chassis on the
" clean " and " dirty " sides.
6. A small repairing shop.