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DISINFECTION.
As compared with the previous year the number of rooms fumigated, stripped,
and cleansed, has increased by 33; the number of articles disinfected in the steam
chamber by 5,716; and the number of articles destroyed by fire in the Destructor
has diminished by 49.
Rooms fumigated (the owners or occupiers stripping and cleansing) 725.
ARTICLES.
Destroyed. Disinfected.
27 Beds 814
8 Mattresses - 660
19 Palliasses 4.36
8 Bolsters 649
27 Pillows 2409
1 Sheets 111
2 Blankets 2573
4 Counterpanes 487
233 Wearing apparel 3294
1 Rugs and Mats 155
9 Cushions 339
21 Carpets 392
— Covers 58
— Curtains 199
31 Sundries 587
391 Total 13163
Shelter.—It is enacted by the Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, 1890,
Section 15, and re-enacted by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Section 60
(4) that the Sanitary Authority shall provide, free of charge, temporary shelter or
house accommodation with any necessary attendants for the members of any
family in which any dangerous infectious disease has appeared, who have been
compelled to leave their dwellings, for the purpose of enabling such dwellings to
be disinfected by the Sanitary Authority.
Several houses have been viewed for the purpose of selection, but, for various
reasons, have been considered undesirable by your Vestry or by your Health
Committee. Several vacant spots have also been suggested for the purpose of
erecting a temporary shelter, the corner plot on the east side of St. Pancras
Gardens, the disinfecting chamber yard, and various plots of ground. Meanwhile,
a few families were sheltered in the offices of the Health Department, no other
place being available. This course is now discontinued since the objection thereto
by your Vestry. There is practically no risk incurred by other houses in proximity to
a properly managed shelter, but it is to be feared that, on other grounds, whatever