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(A. 2.)
SAINT PANGEAS BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Public Health Department.
Town Hall,
Pancras Road, N.W.
190 .
Certificate of Disinfection.
To or the Occupier
This is to certify that the room, and the articles contained therein, occupied
by aged
at
suffering from
have been disinfected
to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health.
Medical Officer of Health.
(A. 3.)
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. PANCRAS.
Public Health Department.
To Persons in Contact with Dangerous Infectious Diseases.
Notice. Contact Shelter.
The St. Pancras Borough Council have provided a Contact Shelter in
Cambridge Street, King's Road, Pancras Road, N.W. (on the east side of
St. Pancras Gardens), for the purpose of temporarily sheltering those whose
dwellings are being disinfected after dangerous infectious disease, and of
disinfecting the person and clothing of those who have been in close contact
with dangerous infectious disease.
A family whose dwelling, tenement, or flat does not afford sufficient
accommodation during the disinfection of part or of the whole of their dwelling
will be temporarily accommodated in the Contact Shelter, which is provided
with baths and disinfecting chamber.
A midwife, after attending upon a patient suffering from puerperal fever or
from any other illness supposed to be infectious, by the rules of the Central
Midwives Board, must disinfect herself and all her instruments and other
appliances to the satisfaction of the local Sanitary Authority, and must have
her clothing thoroughly disinfected before going to another labour. For this
purpose the baths and disinfecting chamber at the Contact Shelter are
available, and after cleansing and disinfection a midwife is given a certificate
to the effect tbat she has undergone personal cleansing (including hair and
nails) in a warm bath, that her personal clothing, has undergone disinfection
or destruction, that her hands have been specially disinfected by soaking in
methylated spirit and in solution of perchloride of mercury (1 in 1,000), and
that the instruments brought with her have been sterilised or destroyed.