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DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT
2,772 rooms and 4,894 articles of bedding and clothing
were disinfected during the year, among them being the rooms
and articles used by the 583 cases of various forms of infectious
disease taken to hospital. 201 certificates of disinfection were
issued, and 190 library books dealt with from the 4, 179 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
230 houses were treated for bed bugs and in them 664 separate
rooms were sprayed with Vermacine, a preparation of 5 per cent.
D.D.T with Pyrethrum as a 'Knockout'. It was necessary to treat
39 houses a second time.