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Water Supply. Storage Cisterns.
During- the year 117 storage cisterns have been examined.
Action has been taken in all cases where improvements can be
effected.
These supply cisterns are also required to be emptied and
thoroughly cleansed from time to time, as often as may be necessary
to prevent pollution of any water, and to be provided with
proper close-fitting covers, and so placed as to be at all times
readily accessible.
Infectious Disease Visits.
During the year 147 visits have been made to premises
where cases of infectious disease have been notified.
All information obtained is submitted to the Medical Officer
of Health, and the matters contained dealt with according to
His instructions. A case paper record of each case is made out
and filed for reference.
Disinfection.
The methods in use in this District are:—
Rooms sprayed with Formic Aldehyde; bedding, etc., removed
(by arrangement with the Joint Hospital Authorities) for
steam disinfection, when requested by the medical attendant.
All disinfection of rooms is carried out free of charge by
the Council to the residents in the district and the bedding,
clothes, etc., after notifiable cases of fever and tuberculosis,
steam disinfected by the Joint Hospital Authorities.
The articles are collected, disinfected, and returned free
of charge on request by the medical attendant.
The Joint Isolation Hospital Authorities now make a charge
of 17s. 6d. per journey to residents in this District for the disinfection
of bedding, clothes, etc., after all non-notifiable diseases,
pn request,