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Summary of work carried, out by the Disinfecting Department
during 1938.
Cleansing notices served 1,188
Total no. of rooms disinfected by the council 3,890
* do. articles do. 11,917
Cases in which bedding was disinfected at home 1,467
do. do. do. at chamber 1,573
Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied 25,879
Certificates of medical practitioners received in lieu of
disinfection by the council 4
Schools disinfected (25 rooms) 10
Certificates of disinfection left with occupiers of disinfected
premises 1,199
Library books disinfected 456
Mattresses re-tabbed by council 302
Tuberculosis Dispensaries—
Shelters lent and erected 3
Shelters dismantled and removed 2
Bedsteads and mattresses delivered 14
Bedsteads and mattresses collected 5
Bacteriological outfits (swabs, etc.), delivered 2,469
Smoke machines collected and delivered 220
Cabs, etc., disinfected 12
Maternity parcels sterilised 34
* Including 97 families (5,917 articles) for Lambeth Borough Council
(Hemans Street Area).
Eradication of Bed-bugs.
(1) The number of houses found to be verminous and disinfested
during the year was:—
Council houses, 32; other houses, 837.
(2) The method employed for disinfesting verminous rooms is
to strip the wall paper, to loosen architraves, skirtings and picture
rails, and to apply a blowlamp to the back of the removed mouldings
and to the walls where they were fixed. The room is then thoroughly