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The house and trade refuse continues to be disposed of
by crude dumping on the tip in the northern part of the district.
This dump is now yards above its surroundings and
causes a nuisance to the neighbourhood by the smoke and
fumes and blown paper. In May, a deputation of the public
Health Committee visited Aylesbury to inspect the salvage
plant and reported in favour of the adoption of a method
disposal on similar lines. Early this year a joint deputation o:
the Public Health and Works Committees visited Birmingham
to inspect a plant workcid on the same principle but on
a larger scale. As a result it is probable that some such
method will be utilised for disposing of the local house refuse
and lead to the termination of the nuisance created by the
present method.
Disinfection and Disinfestation.
Disinfection of Homes.
All houses are disinfected as a routine practice after the
occurrence of Scarlet Fever or Diphtheria, being fumigated with
a Formigator left for six hours. The rooms of the Estate houses
are subsequently distempered by the L.C.C. Authorities. Rooms
vacated by tubercular persons are fumigated on Vcquest.
Bedding.
By arrangement with the Joint Hospital Board, bedding can
be removed and stoved at the hospital, at the expense of the
owner.
In the course of the year the question of the provision of
some form of Cleansing Station has been discussed. In a
report submitted it was pointed out that, in this area, there
were no facilities for dealing with persons suffering from scal
or lor dealing wi-esth the garments and bedding of those suffering
from scabies or vermin nor for providing tor disinfection
infectious materials. Though admittedly fomites play but a
small pari in the dissemination of the more ordinary infections
and the routine terminal fumigation of premises might well
be dispensed with, there arc certain circumstances in which one
would prefer to have facilities for ensuring thorough disinfection
of goods. Such cases are those of Smallpox in which
fomites are credited with being of more importance in the
spread than in the more common infections: Typhoid Fever,