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Disinfection.—During the year, 184 rooms and 1,216 articles of bedding (mattresses, blankets, sheets,
bolsters, pillows, etc.) together with 1,163 books, were disinfected, and 326 dressing drums from a
local hospital were sterilised.
The Department continued to be called upon by residents in the Borough to certify that worn clothing
intended for despatch to foreign countries was free from infection. Disinfection was carried out only
when clothing had actually been in contact with infectious disease but during the year 430 certificates,
relating to a total of 6,577 articles, were issued to indicate that no infectious disease had been reported
for at least one month at the premises from which the clothing was purported to have come.
Bacteriological Examinations.—Table 9 shows the number of specimens examined for the purposes
of diagnosis and indicates also the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made.