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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT, 1927.
Details of work done in connection with the Disinfecting
Department are subjoined: 3,882 cases of infectious diseases,
notified compulsorily by medical men, were dealt with, including
Cerebro-spinal fever and post-basic meningitis (7), acute poliomyelitis
(7), acute primary pneumonia (295), acute influenzal
pneumonia (203), acute encephalitis lethargica (7), malaria (5),
ophthalmia neonatorum (55), measles (941), german measles (133),
and tuberculosis—pulmonary (471), and non-pulmonary (100),
whilst the following diseases were, in addition, reported by school
teachers and others, viz.: measles (206), chicken-pox (1,172),
cancer (94), whooping cough (507), and others not classified (508)*,
374 verminous houses (464 rooms) and 636 verminous articles,
bedding and clothing, were also dealt with.
Summary of work carried out by the Disinfecting
Department during 1927.
Total No. of Rooms disinfected by the Council 7,255
Do. articles do. 17,733
Cases in which bedding was disinfected at homef 4,211
Do. do. do. at Chamber 4,034
Do. do. do. destroyed —
Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied 16,195
Articles of bedding, etc., disinfected 17,733
Articles of bedding, etc., destroyed -
Ambulances, etc., disinfected 6
No. of Cleansing Notices served in connection with infected
houses 1,507
Certificates of Medical Practitioners received in lieu of
disinfection by the Council 8
Schools disinfected J (47 rooms) 7
Certificates of disinfection left with occupiers of disinfected
premises 1,557
Library books disinfected (public) 154
Mattresses re-tabbed by Council 672
*Scabies, ringworm, diseases not stated, etc.
†Bedding not removed to the disinfecting Chamber for disinfection
in cases of Measles and German Measles.
‡Scarlet Fever, 2 (3 rooms); Diphtheria, 5 (44 rooms).