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The Process of Disinfection of a room that has been occupied by a person
suffering from infectious disease consists in disinfecting the air, the contents, and
the surfaces of the room. In order to carry this out the following instructions
are given : —
1. To fumigate the air.
2. To remove the bedding, clothing, and other unwashable articles to a
proper chamber for disinfection by steam or other form of heat,
and useless articles for destruction by fire.
3. To well boil all washable articles.
4. To thoroughly wash and cleanse the furniture.
5. To strip and cleanse the walls (burning the paper), lime white the
ceiling, and scour the wood work, paint work, floor, etc.
A printed notice with these instructions is delivered to the owner or occupier
by the Disinfector at the same time as he carries out instructions numbered 1 and
2, no charge being made for this, it is rarely that any difficulty is experienced
in obtaining compliance with the three succeeding instructions.
The diseases enumerated in the Infectious Disease Notification Act has been
divided into three classes, a list of which is given below, with the number of the
instruction to be followed in each case.

The New Disinfecting Chamber.—The dry heat apparatus for disinfecting
unwashable articles was displaced towards the end of the summer by a high pres-