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Our arrangements for transport are as stated in previous reports.
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station. On January 13th, 1914, the
Clerk was instructed to apply to the Local Government Board for approval of
a loan of £670, i.e., £500 for the cleansing and £170 for the disinfecting station
adjoining the Town Hall Yard. For the whole of 1914 the matter lay dormant,
until the Sanitary Committee broached the subject to the Council on the 12th
January, 1915. It was then stated that the cost would be £980 to build these
stations in accordance with the plans acceptable to the Board's architect; thereupon
a resolution was passed that application be made for the Board's sanction
to a loan of £1,ooo. An enquiry, was held here on March 1st. But it was not
until April 13th that the Council heard the letter of the Board, dated 31st
March, 1915, stating that they could not sanction loans under the present
conditions, except for cases of extreme urgency or necessity.
In June, it was reported that the boiler at the old disinfecting station was
nearly useless, and a conference ordered between the Engineer, the Inspector of
Nu;sances and myself on the subject. In July we presented a statement from
the Engineer that the cost of erecting the disinfecting station only, would be
£350 and £8o for a new boiler. On the 13th July the Council endorser! the
Sanitary Committee's recommendation that the sum of £450 be provided in two
half-yearly sums out of the current rate. The plans and specifications were
laid before the Works' Committee and the Council in September. Tenders
were accepted in November, and at the end of the year the erection of the new
disinfecting station was begun in the Town Hall Yard.
I hope that it will be in use by Easter of 1916.
DISINFECTION.
Our methods are stated in my report for 1914.
A gross of blankets were disinfected in January for Eley's military guard.
Disinfectants continue to be supplied to callers, mostly children, on the
same lavish scale as heretofore.
PUERPERAL FEYER.
7 cases were notified ; of these 6 were Edmonton women, of whom 5 died
Our death rate is therefore just over 3 per thousand nett births', it was 1.16 last
year. The Hornsey case was notified from the Edmonton Infirmary, but two
from Tottenham and Wood Green were not, although all three died there, t
Edmonton case was notified both by the private doctor and the Infirmary—1
who died in the Infirmary had been notified by a private practitioner, another