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and technical assistants will be found on page 95.
PERSONAL CLEANSING STATION
A cleansing service for verminous persons and persons suffering from scabies
operates at Branch Road Cleansing Station, in addition to the service provided for
schoolchildren at school treatment centres. The several large common lodging houses
in the area provide acontinuous flow of men to the Station for delousing. Statistics
on page 96.
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
These services are provided on site at Branch Road Disinfecting Station where
teams of operators are also based todeal with infection and infestat ions atpremises.
Premises and fomites are disinfected after the occurrence of certain infectious
diseases, generally by means of steam under pressure or by formaldehyde. Articles
of clothing etc. for export are also dealt with where the country to which the goods
are being exported requires an official certificate.
A service is provided for the disinfestit ion of premises infested by insects,
etc. including ants, bed bugs,cockroaches, fleas,carpet beetles, woodlice,clovermites
firebrats, spider beetles, silverfish and dermestidae. (Statistics on page 96).
LICENSING ACT, 1961
Applications for registration of clubs under the Licensing Act 1961 are dealt
with by a mag istrates court, copies of the applanations being seiit to the Council for
any observations it may wish to make. Public health inspectors visit the premises
to report on their suitability as regards the requirements of public health and food
and drugs legislation. Premises inspected and reported during the year numbered 18.
LODGING HOUSES - COMMON
There are three licensed common lodging houses in the borough, providing
accommodation for 769 persons as foil cws:-
Salvation Army Hostel, Garford Street 218 Men
Salvation Army Women's Hostel, Hopetown Street 228 loomed
Salvation Army Hostel, 177 Whitechapel Road 323 Men
The premises are inspected regularly including visits made at night to ensure
compliance with the byelaws relating thereto.
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