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Some inconvenience was experienced during the year owing to
the fact that we were short of one Sanitary Inspector on the Staff
for some months.
1,386 visits were paid in respect of children excluded from
elementary schools during the year, and the total number of
inspections and visits for all purposes made by the Staff of the
Public Health Department was 22,872.
DISINFECTION.
Houses Disinfected:—
After infectious disease 332
After Phthisis 60
392
After verminous cases 103
Vacated Council houses 176
279
671
Rooms stripped and re-papered, etc., after occupation
by cases of infectious disease 5
Ditto ditto by cases of Phthisis 3
Articles of clothing, bedding, etc., disinfected 1,243
Ditto ditto destroyed 147
Library books disinfected 32
Number of Certificates issued re disinfection of
clothing and premises 23
Number of Schools disinfected 4
Private patients removed to Hospitals 1,540
Gipsy Vans removed from the District 23
Articles or parcels of unsound food destroyed or
otherwise disposed of 27
176 vacated Council houses were disinfested during the year.
Of these, 79 showed signs of vermin—44 per cent. of the total.
It is a decision of the Council that before an occupier may
transfer from one Council house to another, the person wishing to
be transferred must, on inspection, be found to be occupying a
house free from vermin.
DISINFESTATION OF VERMINOUS HOUSES.
It is the practice of the Health Department to inspect every
Council house as soon as it becomes vacant, in order to ascertain
if the house be verminous; where vermin are found the house is
disinfested before being re-let.