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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT
2,981 rooms and 22,178 articles of bedding and clothing were
disinfected during the year, among them being the rooms and
articles used by the 371 cases of various forms of infectious
disease taken to hospital; 187 certificates of disinfection were
issued, and 87 library books dealt with from the 4,919 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.
379 houses were treated for bed bugs and in them 1,252 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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