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contact with those persons who were waiting for a bath and had
not had their clothes disinfected, hence, there might have been
re-infection.
It was reported to the Committee that when the Upper Shelter,
which consists of workshops, was given over by the Works Department,
it was so arranged that the infected and disinfected contacts
did not meet one another.
Certain portions of what was used as the Upper Shelter had
again been taken over by the Works Department, and, although
these workshops might again be given up to the Public Health
Department, it was pointed out to the Public Health Committee that
to rely upon such an arrangement is not at all a proper state of
affairs.
At the time of the report there were two rooms in what was
the Upper Shelter, divided by a workshop, a store room in which
the Public Health Department keeps the necessary articles for
stripping and cleansing rooms, and a bath room.
The Committee referred the question of provision of adequate
shelter accommodation at the Depot to the Borough Surveyor
and myself for report.
The Surveyor stated that the Upper Shelter, which was given
over at one time by the Works Department to the Public Health
Department, and was being used at the time of the
outbreak as a workshop was still required by the
Works Department, so that it appeared that if the
house which was being used, and was once the Caretaker's
house, was still to be used as a Shelter, structural alterations must
have been carried out, and more room afforded; provision would
also have to be made for the infected and disinfected
contacts not to meet one another. It is also essential in a shelter
that at least two waiting rooms should be provided, to prevent
infected contacts of small-pox cases mixing up with contacts of
other diseases.
Another bath would have to be fitted up.