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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT
2.633 rooms and 6,936 articles of bedding and clothing were
disinfected during the year, among them being the rooms and
articles used by the 352 cases of various forms of infectious
disease taken to hospital; 135 certificates of disinfection were
issued, and 69 library books dealt with from the 4,060 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.
286 houses were treated for bed bugs and in them 879 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
49 houses a second time.
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