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The amount of disinfection carried out by the Council lias increased
considerably in late years, and this is in no small measure due to the
practice of the Council to disinfect upon request in cases of non-infectious
illness, after all cases of measles coming to the notice of the Sanitary
Authority, and the clothes, etc., of verminous school children and others
undergoing cleansing at the cleansing station. A small charge is made
for disinfection in the first of these instances referred to, and the number
of cases where such disinfection was carried out was 1 62, the amount
received in fees for this work being £45 10s. Od.
With regard to measles, the London County Council in the early
part of 1903 obtained the approval of the Local Government Hoard for
the inclusion of measles amongst the dangerous and infectious diseases
in so far as 60-65, 68-70, and 72-74, Public Health (London) Act,
1891, apply. These sections while they do not make the disease compulsorily
notifiable, extend to it the provisions relating to isolation and
disinfection. During the year I have received information respecting
429 cases of Measles, and in all of these cases disinfection was carried out.
During the year 157 school children and 20 other persons were
cleansed at the cleansing station, and while this was in progress their
clothing was thoroughly disinfected by being passed through the steam
chambers. In seven cases also where verminous homes were being dealt
with, the bedding, etc., was removed and disinfected.