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The number of school places estimated to be required in 1902 was
19,136.
Copies of 725 certificates relating to the various notifiable diseases
were sent to school teachers during 1902.
Disinfection.
During 1902, 1,836 rooms in 1,097 houses were disinfected by the
staff of the Department, and 39,965 articles were subjected to steam
disinfection in the City Disinfecting Stations. In addition a number of
rooms and their contents were disinfected to the satisfaction of medical
men by private firms. Thirty-seven articles were destroyed by fire at
the request of the owners; twenty-four books were destroyed at the
request of the Libraries Committee, having been in use at houses
where small-pox existed. £1 7s. was paid in respect of other
articles destroyed.
Disinfection was carried out after all cases of the notifiable diseases,
except as regards erysipelas (in which disinfection was only performed
where the circumstances of the case required it), and also after 33
cases of measles, 9 chicken-pox, 2 whooping cough, 3 cancer, 2 German
measles, 1 mumps, and 10 phthisis. 1,025 books were disinfected.
I had hoped to have been able to report that the Central
Disinfecting Station had been erected, but the County Council have as
yet taken no further steps to provide a site.
Shelters.—Twenty persons were admitted to the Temporary Shelters
(Horseferry Road and Dufour.s Place) during 1902, all in connection
with the small-pox outbreak.
Mortuaries.
The number of bodies removed to public mortuaries in the City
during 1902 was 398. 380 were taken to Horseferry Eoad, where the
Coroner.s Court is situated, 12 (two of these being persons dead of an
infectious disease) to Denzell Street, and 6 to Dufour.s Place. There
were 363 inquests held, all being at Horseferry Road.