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DISINFECTION.
The number of rooms fumigated after infectious disease was 1,291, an
increase of 566 on the previous year. The number of articles disinfected in
the steam chamber was 21,376, an increase of 8,213. The number of articles
destroyed by fire in the destruction chamber was 612, an increase of 221 on the
previous year.

Family Shelter.—It is enacted by Section 60, Sub-section 4, of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, 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.
According to the Census of 1891, St. Pancras contained 24,443 inhabited
houses, held by 57,345 separate occupiers or families, or in that number of total
tenements. Of the 57,345 total tenements, 44,693 were tenements of four rooms
and less, namely—4,416 of four rooms, 8,689 of three rooms, 16,220 of two rooms,
and 15,368 of one room. It may be said that in order to enable disinfection to be
be properly performed all the families or single persons in one room will require
temporary accommodation to be provided, and one-half of those in two rooms may
be estimated also to require it; it would, therefore, be necessary to provide
accommodation for 23,478 tenements or families.