NORTH DISTRICTS. |
9 | St. Marylebone | Yes | The Stone-yard, Capland-street | Dry heat | Hot-water pressure pipes | ... | No | 2-3 hours. Temperature of centre of beds not known | Special men employed. Infected articles fumigated with liquified sulphur dioxide before removal in vestry's van to disinfecting apparatus | Liquified sulphur dioxide | Commercial carbolic acid 90-95 per cent. For drains 40—45 per cent. | A charge is made only in cases of request for disinfection after non-notifiable diseases | Yes | Notifiable diseases, except erysipelas. By request measles and influenza | A new steam disinfector will be erected at the Stone-yard, Caplandstreet. |
10 | St. Hampstead | Yes | Stone-yard, Li-thos-road | Steam (Washington Lyon) | ... | ... | No | About 1 hour | Two carts, one for infected, one for disinfected articles | Sulphurous acid gas, white-washing and cleansing | Carbolic acid, sulphate of iron for sewers | No | Yes, at Stone-yard. Accommodation for two families | Smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, puerperal fever; by request measles, whooping cough, diarrhoea, rötheln | 0 |
11 | St. Pancras | Yes | Cambridge - st., N.W. | Steam (Goddard. Massey and Warner) | ... | ... | No | Entire process ½ to 1 hour; 212° F. | Two vans, one for infected and one for disinfected articles, and a van kept in reserve in case of epidemic or break- | Sulphurous acid gas, stripping, cleansing, white-washing and washing with alkalised gas creosote | Left to discretion of medical attendant, but alkalised gas creosote is left for washing and cleansing | No; except for special service at night | Yes | All notifiable diseases except erysipelas | |
12 | Islington | Yes | Seven Sisters'-road | Steam (Goddard, Massey and Warner) | ... | ... | No | 20 minutes steamat201bs. pressure; 10 minutes hot air | The Vestry provide covered vans | Sulphurous acid gas, washing with carbolic acid, or solution of perchloride of mercury, stripping walls, and white - washing walls and ceilings | Carbolic acid or solution of perchloride of mercury | No | Yes | Smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid fever, continued fever, measles, membranous croup, and erysipelas | The disinfecting station is also provided with a laundry and a crematory. |
13 | Hackney | Yes | Hackney-marshes | Steam (Washington Lyon) | ... | | No | ½ hour | Two hand-carts, one for infected, one for disinfected articles | Sulphurous acid gas | Sanitas powder, carbolic acid solution 1 in 150 | No | No | Notifiable diseases | |
14 | Stoke Newington | No | ... | Steam | ... | By contract, for use of Islington disinfector | | 3 hours; temperature of oven, 220° F. | Two hand-carts, one for infected and one for disinfected articles | Sulphurous acid gas, stripping, cleansing. &c., when judged necessary | Perchloride of mercury | No | No | All notifiable diseases except erysipelas | |
CENTRAL DISTRICTS. |
15 | St. Giles | Yes | Stone-yard, 197, High Holborn, W.C. | Steam (Washington Lyon) | ... | ... | No | 30 minutes; 265° F. | Hand trucks | Sulphurous acid gas | Pechloride of mercury | No | A temporary shelter is provided in spare rooms at the public mortuary in Goldsmith-street | Notifiable diseases, except erysipelas and croup. When cases of erysipelas occur at the workhouse the bedding there is disinfected | |
16 | St. Martin - in -the-Fields | No | ... | Steam | ... | By contract with Mr. Lacy, of Fulham | No. | 30 minutes; 250° F. | A special zinc-lined van | Sulphurous acid gas | Calvert's carbolic powder 20 per cent, and Jeyes' fluid | A small charge to those who can afford | An arrangement is in contemplation | Smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, puerperal fever | |
17 | Strand | Yes | Denzell - street, Clare-market | Both : Washington Lyon's steam and Praser's dry air oven | ... | ... | With the Praser eulphur may beemployed | Lyon's, 1 hour; steam at 201bs. pressure being on for20mins.; 250° F.Fraser's used for leather articles,books, &c. | Air-tight iron cart for removing infected articles, separate truck to return them from oven | Sulphurous acid gas and stripping walls | Corrosive sublimate, Calvert's No. 5 carbolic acid and crude Sanitas, according to nature of case | No | Yes | All notifiable diseases, and any others required. Cleansing is carried out after deaths from phthisis | |
18 | Holborn | Yes, but useless for the purpose | In Stone-yard at Town Hall, (used only for cases of itch) | Steam used by Contractor | ... | By contract withMessrs. Arjnfield, of Battersea | Yes | About 1 hour; about 250° F. | A preliminary fumigation with strong sulphurous acid gas before leaving house | Sulphurous acid gas | Carbolic acid and Jeyes' fluid | No | In communication with Vestry of Clerken well with reference to the use of shelter in that district | Notifiable diseases and measles | |
19 | Clerkenwell | Yes | 49, Northampton-road | Dry heat | Gas | ... | No | At least 4 hours; 250° F. or under 300° F. | Sheet-iron truck | Sulphurous acid gas 1 lb. of sulphur to every 300 cubic feet, all apertures being tightly closec | Carbolic acid | No | Yes | Notifiable diseases, except erysipelas and puerperal fever | |
20 | St. Luke | Yes | Warwick - place, Whitecross-street | Dry heat | Gas | ... | No | 7 hours; temperature of oven, 240° F. | A covered van | Sulphurous acid ga.s | Carbolic acid solution and powder | No | Now in course of erection in connection with buildings at new wharf premises belonging to the vestry | Notifiable diseases | Bedding, &c., subjected to fumigation before removal. |