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The table appended gives details of the rooms,
bedding and clothing disinfected.
No. of Rooms
Disinfected
Articles of
Clothing, etc.,
Disinfected by
Steam
Formalin
Infectious disease
860
6,409
1,453
Scabies
19
3,666
19
Verminous condition
610
3,891
19
Other conditions
6
125
7
Hospital bedding
-
11,596
64
1,495
25,687
1,562
Number of articles destroyed by request, 258.
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.
Spraying Machines.
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 468 occasions during the year, as compared with
475 in 1934.
Verminous Conditions.
Sixteen children (in 14 families) were reported
from the L.C.C. Cleansing Station as being infested
with vermin, 12 of the families being cases of head
lice only. In every case advice as to the treatment of
the clothing and bedding was given and disinfestation
by steam was offered. In 6 cases disinfection of some
kind was accepted.
The foregoing figures are half of the preceding
year, when 1 commented on the steady improvement
they have shown for several years. I must again