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The table appended gives full details of the rooms,
bedding and clothing disinfected.
No. of Rooms Articles of
Disinfected Clothing, etc.
Infectious disease 1,186 11,018
Scabies 59 4,107
Verminous conditions 200 2,889
Other conditions 53 805
Hospital bedding 11,339
1,498 30,158
There were also 926 articles disinfected in the
Formalin Chamber.
No. of articles destroyed by request, 238.
Arrangements are now in operation for any
necessary disinfection to be carried out during the
week.end, one disinfector standing by for duty on
Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
INSECT PESTS.
A small stock of spraying machines is kept for
issue on loan, with a quantity of insecticide, to residents
desirous of following up and completing the disinfection
of their rooms. The sprayers were lent on 240 occasions
during the year, as compared with 522 last year, and
428 in 1929.
Verminous Conditions.
One hundred and two children in 68 families
were reported from the L.C.C. Cleansing Station as
being infested with vermin. In every case advice as
to the treatment of the clothing and bedding was given
and disinfestation by steam was offered. In 22 cases
disinfection of some kind was accepted.
Rooms were disinfested of vermin in 200 cases.