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Vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed by the Public Vaccinators of the
Council during the year 1936:—
Successful vaccinations performed at the surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 67
Successful re-vaccinations performed at surgery or elsewhere
than at the homes of the persons vaccinated 59
Successful vaccinations or re-vaccinations performed at the
homes of the persons vaccinated or re-vaccinated 1,512
The Vaccination Officers in the course of their duties forwarded the names of
1,468 children to the Public Vaccinators on Form "H." Another 484 children were
vaccinated at the "request" of parents or guardians before Form "H" was
issued.
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of Rooms.—2,521 rooms were disinfected, as contrasted with
2,898 in 1935. Formaldehyde in solution was employed, although in some cases
it was augmented by sulphur fumigation, when vermin were found to be present,
for which purpose sulphur has been found effective. For the extermination of
bugs, in addition all the architrave mouldings and skirting boards, behind which
they breed, are removed, and the walls washed with hot lime; in certain cases
special insecticide fluids were employed.
The above figures also include the disinfection of houses and rooms after
Tuberculosis, vide p. 25.

Work at the Disinfecting Station.—27,008 large articles of bedding,
etc., as detailed below, were disinfected by the steam disinfectors at the Council's
Disinfecting Station, compared with 27,966 similar articles disinfected during the
previous year.
In addition to the above articles, 309,493 second-hand garments were disinfected
for clothing contractors trading in the Borough, who paid the Council for
the work, amounting to the sum of £84 Is. Od.
Altogether 336,501 articles described in the two paragraphs preceding were
disinfected.