| 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; except for special service at night | 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, and at any time on application by | |
| 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, and one man superintends the oven | Sulphurous acid gas and when deemed necessary solution of perchloride of mercury. The latter is always used in cases of smallpox and scarlet fever | Calvert's carbolic powder, 20 per cent, strength | No | Permanent provision is in process of arrangement, at present coroner's court room is available, if necessary | occupier Notifiable diseases. Measles in case of death and when other children are resident in the house | In deaths from choleraic diseases, &c., and where articles are particularly dirty and offensive they are destroyed in the cremator. |
| 24 | St. George-in-the-East | No | Negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of a suitable site | ... | ... | Washable articles are dipped in liq. sod. chlor. and other articles are openedand exposed to the fumes of burning sulphur | ... | ... | ... | Sulphur, walls stripped and washed with hot lime and ceilings cleansed and lime whitened | Carbolic acid, liq. sodae chlorinatae | 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 | Infected articles from smallpox and cholera cases are burnt. |
| 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, diphtheria, 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, Emmett-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 | Board's depot, Violet-road | Steam (Washington Lyon) | ... | ... | No | ... | Two vans drawn by horses, one to fetch and the other to return articles | Sulphur, chloro-napthalene, corrosive sublimate | Chloro - napthalene undiluted and carbolic acid | No | No | Smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, puerperal fever, typhus, enteric, erysipelas, simple continued fever, cholera, or any case as occasion arises | |
| Bow | Yes | do. | do. | ... | ... | No | 2 hours; 225° F. | ... | Sulphur, and in certain cases washing with a mercuria disinfectant | Chloro - napthalene and Condy's fluid | No | No | Notifiable diseases, except erysipelas (save in fatal cases or when the premises are very dirty) | |
| SOUTH DISTRICTS. |
| 28 | St- Saviour | Yes | Ewer-street | Dry heat | Gas | ... | Sulphur | 6 hours | 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 | 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 (Washington Lyon) | ... | ... | No | 1 hour; tem-perature within ap -paratus 260° F. | Infected articles carried in covered hand-truck to oven, taken back in another closed truck | Sulphur | Carbolic acid, 5 per cent. solution | No | Plans and specification for houses prepared and lease of land under consideration | Notifiable diseases and such other infectious diseases as come to knowledge oi 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 | Steam (Manlove and Co.) | ... | ... | No | ... | Special vans and men; bedding wrapped in macintosh ; men dressed in overalls of canvas | 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 prepared | Smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid puerperal fever | |
| 31 | St. Olave | Yes | Guy's Hospital | Steam ... | ... | ... | No | ... | In cases where bedding, Ac., is to be destroyed or disinfected a properly covered zinc-lined truck is used | Sulphur, walls stripped; paint, &c. washed with acid or solution of earbolic acid or perchloride of mercury | Perchloride of mer cury, 1 in 1000 or 1 in 2000 9 | No | Yes | Scarlet fever, smallpox diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, puerperal fever occasionally measles, tuberculosis, erysipelas | |
