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NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Information regarding the prevalence of these diseases is
mainly obtained from the weekly returns supplied by the head
teachers of elementary schools, the incidence as far as is known
is shown in Table XXXII. of the school medical report.
Advantage is taken of the information to visit certain of these
cases, particularly where it is known that no doctor is in attendance
and during the year your school nurses made 1,194 visits in connection
with these diseases.
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection of the clothing, bedding and premises is done
jfter removal of each case of practically ail notifiable diseases, and
the following statement shews the v. ork carried out during the
year :—
864 infected rooms and places disinfected by spraying
with a solution of Formalin, or by aporising of Formaldehyde
Tablets.
44 infected rooms were cleansed by stripping of wallpapers
from walls and washing cf ceilings; 30 as the result
of informal notices and 14 in compliance with notices served
under the Infectious Disease Pie . ention Act, 1890.
The disinfection of bedding, etc., was done at thv
Disinfection Station by steam in a "Thresh" apparatus; all
articles were returned after disinfection in a covered van.
605 Library Books were collected from infected houses,
67 were destroyed and 588 disinfected and returned to houses
or libraries from which issued.
VACCINATION.
The Vaccination Acts are administered bv the Middlesex
County Council and I am indebted to Mr. A. E. Taylor, the
Vaccination Officer, for the table of vaccination w hich follow s:—