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DISINFECTION.
Houses Disinfected:—
After infectious disease 275
After Phthisis 59
334
After verminous cases (Non-Council) 65
Vacated Council houses 22
87
421
Rooms stripped and re-papered, etc., after occupation
by cases of infectious disease 8
Ditto, ditto, by cases of Phthisis 3
Articles of clothing, bedding, etc., disinfected 1,503
Ditto, ditto, destroyed 158
Library Books disinfected 91
No. of Certificates issued re disinfection of clothing
and premises 31
Number of Schools disinfected 8
Private Patients removed to Hospital 3,257
Caravans and Gipsy Vans removed from District 120
Articles or parcels of unsound food destroyed or
otherwise disposed of 22
106 vacated Council houses were examined for the presence
of vermin during the year, and in 81 of these houses it was deemed
advisable to carry out a detection test. 22 houses shewed definite
-evidence of vermin—20 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, be found to be occupying a house free from
vermin.
DISINFESTATION OF VERMINOUS HOUSES.
The rule of the Health Department, as in the past, has been
to see that every house becoming vacant is inspected for the purpose
of deciding whether it is verminous. Where evidence of
infestation has been found the house has been disinfested before
being relet.
Our experience with Heavy Naphtha has proved so satisfactory
that it has been considered highly desirable that its use should
be continued in the case of empty houses. The Department has
now a specially equipped van in which verminous articles, particularly
furniture, can be efficiently fumigated.
The disinfection of verminous clothing and bedding is carried
out by means of a Washington-Lyons Steam Disinfector situated
at the Council's Sewage Farm.