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London County Council 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: Return of Replies From District Medical Officers or Health—continued.

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Return of Replies From District Medical Officers or Health—continued.

No.	Parish or District.	Whether Sanitary Authority has provided disinfecting oven.	Where oven is situated.	Whether disinfection effected by dry heat or steam.	Manner in which dry heat is produced.	Arrangements made where no oven has been provided.	Whether any chemicals used in connection with the oven.	Length of time feather bed of average size is retained in oven, and highest temperature in centre of bed.	Arrangements made for removal of infected articles to and from oven.	Method adopted for disinfecting houses.	Disinfectant recommended for disinfection of excreta.	Whether charge is made for disinfection.	Whether shelter has been provided as required by Section 60 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.	Diseases after which Authority carries out disinfection.	Remarks.
EAST DISTRICTS.
21	Shoreditch	Yes	Town Hall, Old-street	Steam (Goddard, Massey and Warner)	...	...	No	40 minutes	Two vans (one horse) one for infected and one for disinfected articles	Sulphurous acid gas; whitewashing and washing with chloride of lime	Left to discretion of medical attendant	No	Yes	Notifiable diseases
22	Bethnal-green.	Yes	Vestry-yard, Digby-street	Steam (Washington Lyon)	...	...	No	1 hour	Covered hand-carts	Sulphurous acid gas	Sanitas and perchloride of mercury	No	No	Smallpox, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, diphtheria, cholera.
23	Whitechapel	Yes	Wentworth-street and George - yard, Whitechapel	Steam (Goddard, Massey and Warner)	...	...	No	1 hour. Highest temperature probably 280° F.	Two trucks are used; two men are employed to bring and return the articles	Sulphurous acid gas and when deemed necessary solution of perchloride of mercury	Calvert's carbolic powder,20 per cent, strength	No	Permanent provision is in process of ar-rangement, at present coroner's court room is available, if necessary	Notifiable diseases. Measles in case of death and when other children are resident in the house.	In deaths from choleraic diseases, Ac., and where articles are particularly dirty and offensive they are destroyed in the cremator.
24	St. George-in-the-East	No	...	...	...	A contemplated arrangement with District of Limehouse has fallen through	...	...	...	Sulphur, walls stripped and washed with hot lime	Carbolic acid, liq. sodae chlorinatse	No	Yes	Smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, typhus, cholera, and membranous croup when supposed to be diphtheritic, and in other cases when recommended by the medical officer of health.
25	Limehouse	Yes	Little John-street, Dorset-street, Commercial-road	Dry heat	Gas	...	No	4 hours	A hand box-truck is used to take infected articles to the oven, and another similar truck is used to take them home after disinfection	Sulphur, stripping walls, and washing ceilings, paint and floors with disinfectants	Carbolic acid	No	Yes	Typhoid, typhus, d iphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, puerperal fever, simple continued fever and cholera.	A Washington Lyon's steam disinfector has been ordered, and will shortly be erected in place of that now in use.
26	Mile End Old Town	Yes	Riga- wharf, Emmet-street	Steam	...	...	No	2 hours; 250° F. in centre of bed	Two zinc-lined handcarts, one for infected, one for disinfected articles	Sulphur	Burnett's fluid	No	Yes	Scarlet fever, typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox.
27	Poplar— Poplar and Bromley	Yes	Bickmore-street	Dry heat	Coke fire	...	Sulphur	2-4 hours	Iron truck	Sulphur, chloro-naphthalene, corrosive sublimate	Chloro - naphthalene undiluted and carbolic acid	iso	No	Smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, puerperal fever, typhus, enteric, erysipelas, simple continued fever, cholera.	A new steam apparatus (Washington Lyon) will shortly be in use.
	Bow	Yes	Old Ford - road	Dry heat	Coke fire	...	...	5 hours; 124° F.	Closed van.	Naphtholeum	Naphtholeum and Condy's fluid
SOUTH DISTRICTS.
28	, St. Saviour ...	Yes	Ewer-street ...	Dry heat	Gas ...	...	Sulphur	6 hours	1 A closed van used for conveying articles to and from oven	Sulphur	Solution of perchloride of mercury, 1 in 1000	No	Rooms were provided, but are no longer available. Accommodation is being sought elsewhere	Notifiable diseases, except erysipelas.	The authority has resolved to provide a steam apparatus.
29	St. George-the-Martyr	Yes	Stone-yard, King James-street,Borough-road	Steam	...	...	No	1 hour; tem-perature within apparatus 260°	Infected articles carried in covered hand-truck to oven, taken back in another truck	Sulphur	Carbolic acid, 5 per cent, solution	No	Under consideration	Notifiable diseases and such other infectious diseases as come to knowledge of medical officer of health.	Medical officer of health observes that "many cases occur in parish where inefficient fumigation is practised, owing to want of a reception house or temporary- shelter."
30	Newington	Yes	Depot, Manor-place, Wal-• worth-road	Dry heat	Gas	...	No	3 hours ; temperature of stove 250°F.	Special van and men; bedding wrapped in macintosh	Sulphur, stripping walls, whitewashing	Sulphate of iron, 1 in 40; perchloride of mercury, 1 in 1000; carbolic acid, 1 in 50	No	No. Plans are being prepared	Smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, puerperal fever.	Vestry is constructing a new disinfecting chamber and an incinerator, both of which are just on the point of completion. The new apparatus to be the best (steam) that can be procured. Two vans are to be used.
31	St. Olave	Yes	Guy's Hospital	Steam	...	...	No	...	In cases where betiding, Ac., is to be destroyed or disinfected a properly covered zinc-lined truck is used	Sulphur, walls stripped; paint,Ac., washedwithacidor solution of carbolic acid or perchloride of mercury	Perchloride of mercury, 1 in 1000 or 1 in 2000	No	Yes	Scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, puerperal fever; occasionally measles, tu-bercvJosis, erysipelas.