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Cleansing and Disinfecting Station
The treatment of affected materials by cleansing, disinfection and/or disinfestation was carried out at the
Department's Depot in Wightman Road, N8. In addition to routine disinfection work to infected bedding or soft
furnishings, bundles of articles were disinfected prior to despatch abroad. Supervised bathing and treatment of
verminous persons and scabies patients were also carried out at the Station.
Laundry Service for the Incontinent
During the year 2,202 bundles of soiled articles were cleaned and laundered at the Council's laundry in the
Hamilton Hogben Training Centre. Care is taken to ensure that the laundry is treated separately from the normal
work undertaken at the Centre. Collections and deliveries are made twice weekly by the Department's general
assistants.

Where requests for assistance are received in respect of non-domestic premises a charge is made to cover the cost
of the service. During 1972 £44 was received in this connection.
Mortuary
The Public Mortuary is situated in Myddleton Road, Hornsey, N8 and is used for the reception of bodies from
the whole of the Borough. Works to provide the Coroner's Court and offices within the same building as the
Public Mortuary were completed early in 1972 and these were brought into operation in April. Since that date
the Coroner has found it convenient to direct that bodies should be removed to the Haringey mortuary from the
adjoining Borough of Enfield. During 1972 420 bodies were received into Hornsey Mortuary from Haringey and
a further 139 bodies were removed to the mortuary from the London Borough of Enfield. A post-mortem
examination was carried out in each case.