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Poplar 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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ELECTROLYTIC DISINFECTING FLUID.
Output of Fluid; Distribution of Fluid; Cost of Material
and Electricity; Bottles, Corks and Labels; Total
Quantity Manufactured since Installation of Plant,
Monetary advantage to Borough; Total Cost of
Electrolytic Fluid, Corks, Labels and Bottles, 190(51910
(Five Years); Cost of Carbolic Disinfectants,
etc., 1908-5; Expenditure for the Year ended 31st
March, 1910, and Expenditure for Half-year ended
30th September, 1910, Average Expenditure for the
Four Years ended 31st March, 1910, Estimate for Year
ended 31st March, 1911, and for Year ending 31st
March, 1912; Cost ok Plant; Condition of Plant;
Spraying and Cleansing Floors of London County
Council Schools with Electrolytic Disinfecting Fluid;
Swimming Baths, the use therein of the Electrolytic
Fluid.
Output of Fluid.
At the seven depots the electrolytic fluid was in great demand by the
public. At the centre depot alone, in one day, over eight hundred vessels
of all descriptions were filled with the fluid, and at this depot on the same
day 70 bottles of the Council filled with the fluid were distributed. Nearly
one thousand vessels were filled.

The output of fluid during each month of the year 1910 was as follows:—

January1,708 Gallons.
February1,568 „
March2,408 „
April3,668 ,,
May4,284 „
June6,482 „
July6,444 „
August6,916 „
September ...6,174 „
October5,572 „
November2,254 „
December3,248 „
Total50,726 „