View report page

52
Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southward.
studied, and any complaint of incivility or of neglect in following out these rules will
be regarded as a serious breach of duty.
4. Before burning the sulphur all gilt, lacquered or copper fittings or ornamentation
shall be removed from the room, washed with a cloth wrung out of carbolic acid
solution (1 in 30), and placed outside the door; also all portable articles such as beds,
bedding, carpets, curtains, and the like, shall be removed in canvas bags for disinfection
in the steam apparatus, after a list has been made.
5. The chimney opening, windows, ventilators, cracks, apertures, and doors shall
be securely sealed by means of thin brown paper and paste, a supply of both of which
materials shall be kept at the disinfecting station.
6. Sulphur candles, to amount to 1½ pounds of sulphur to 1,000 cubic feet of air,
shall bo burnt in an iron bucket or pail provided by the Vestry for the purpose, and no
other method shall be us used.
7. In every case the room must remain sealed up for six hours at least; eight
hours, if it can be arranged.
8. The disinfectors, shall, after six hours or longer, call at the premises, unseal the
room, throw the door and windows wide open, and advise the occupier to let the room
be thus freely exposed to the fresh air for (if possible) twenty-four hours. If that
length of time cannot be arranged, the room must be left open as many hours as can be
managed.
9. All infected goods ordered to be burnt shall be forthwith removod in the truck
to the Incinerator.
10. On completing the disinfection of a room, notice by means of the signature
of the disinfector shall be entered in the book kept for that purpose.
11. Where overalls are worn by disinfectors, they should invariably bo passed
through the steam apparatus after each exposure to infection.
12. The canvas bags for fetching infected articles must be passed through the
steam apparatus after each exposure.
13. The infected goods truck to bo sulphured after each conveyance of infected
articles.
F. J. WALDO,
12th January, 1897. Medical Officer of Health.
Report of Special Committee on Dr. Waldo's Supplementary Report on
the Public Health Committee's Report on Room Disinfection.
To the Vestry of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Ladies and Gentlemen.—The Supplementary Report on Room Disinfection
has boon carefully considered by the Speeial Committee.
It may be well to remind the Vestry of the circumstances in which this Eeport
was presented. The Vestry received and adopted on December 1st, a report dated
November 27th, from the Health Committee, giving the results of an inquiry into
room-disinfection as practised in this parish. The report contained an outline of the
system under which disinfection has been carried out. They also reported on the way
in which infectious cases, when notified, had been treated, both as regards disinfection
and the Medical Officer's visits.