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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT
3,358 rooms and 4,687 articles of bedding and clothing were
disinfected during the year, among them being the rooms and
articles used by the 497 cases of various forms of infectious
disease taken to hospital; 305 certificates of disinfection were
issued, and 225 library books dealt with from the 5,107 premises
visited during the year. The clean van was used regularly for
the delivery of stores to the day nurseries and to the Welfare
Centres.
520 houses were treated for bed bugs and in them 1,358
separate rooms were sprayed with Vermicine, a preparation of
5 per cent. D.D.T. with Pyrethrum as a 'Knock out'. It was
necessary to treat 71 houses a second time.
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