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DISINFECTION—INFECTIOUS DISEASES:—
Articles disinfected after cases of infectious disease 4,447
Public Vehicles—Electric Ambulance 4
BODIES RECEIVED-POST-MORTEMS AND INQUESTS:—
Bodies received at the Mortuary to await burial 160
Post-mortem examinations made 66
Inquests held on bodies 145
Inquests held on fires Nil.
CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACT, 1897:—
Number of verminous persons bathed 20
CLEANSING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN:—
Total number of children cleansed 903

PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF UNKNOWN DEAD.—The De Rechter
apparatus for the preservation of the dead, installed at the City Mortuary in
March, 1909, was fully described in the Annual Report of that year. It has
proved of considerable assistance in connection with the identification of persons
found drowned in the River Thames. During the year, seven bodies were placed
in the apparatus and of these six were subsequently identified.
FIRE INQUEST. Dr. F. J. Waldo, J.P., Coroner for the City of London,
informs me that no Fire Inquests were held by him during 1924, no proper cause
having arisen, but that he had personally inquired into 189 "non-fatal" City fires
reported to him during the year.
DISINFECTANTS.—As heretofore, all the disinfectants used in the Public
Health Department were obtained through your Medical Officer of Health.
They are used for the following purposes:—Deodorising and "denaturising"
condemned meat, disinfecting public conveniences, disinfecting roadways, street
gullies, disinfecting premises, &c., after infectious disease, drain testing and
sundries.

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