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All have been visited and inspected from time to time, and on
a midnight inspection, several contraventions of the bye-laws
were discovered which were at once remedied. Otherwise the
houses have been kept in a clean and satisfactory condition.
No case of infectious disease occurred in any of the houses.
Infectious Disease.
Enquiries into 234 cages of infectious disease notified to
the Medical Officer of Health have been made during the year.
The sanitary arrangements and surroundings were carefully
inspected and enquiries made in each case as to the probable source
of infection, to the milk and water supply, schools attended, etc.,
and all particulars entered in the Infectious Disease Register.
After the removal of a patient to Hospital the bedding,
etc, is taken to the steam disinfeator, the walls and furniture
sprayed with a solution of Formalin, aud the room sealed up. 244