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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Disinfection of Clothing.
All articles of clothing worn while attending a septic case
should be changed for entirely fresh ones, the used clothing being
handed over to the Sanitary Authority for disinfection.
Disinfection of Apparatus.
The bag and apparatus used by the midwife should be
handed over to the Sanitary Authority for disinfection.
It is considered advisable that gum elastic catheters and
syringes should be destroyed. Metal and other articles which will
not be injured by the process should be boiled. The lining of the
bag should be removed and destroyed, while the bag itself should
be washed with corrosive sublimate (1 in 1,000) or other equally
efficient disinfectant.
Form of Certificate.
I hereby Certify that................., who has recently
been in attendance upon a patient suffering from "Puerperal
Fever," has undergone personal cleansing and disinfection, and
that her clothing, instruments, and other apparatus have been
disinfected by the Sanitary Authority to my satisfaction.
P. CALDWELL SMITH, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Erysipelas.
273 cases of this disease were notified and 10 deaths occurred.
53 of the cases and one death occurred in Clapham, 18 cases and
one death in Putney, 65 cases and one death in Streatham, 35
cases and two deaths in Tooting, and 102 cases and five deaths
in Wandsworth.
59 of the cases were removed to the Union Infirmary where
six deaths occurred.
In 1905 the number of cases notified was 253 and the number
of deaths 14.