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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wood Green 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATTON
The number of articles dealt with at the Disinfection Station
was as follows :—-
Articles disinfected 100
Articles destroyed 47
Sixty rooms were disinfected on account of infectious disease.
Six premises were disinfected on account of the presence of
vermin which involved the disinfestation of 21 rooms.
Seventy-nine premises were treated for infestations of cockroaches,
wasps, ants, flies, bluebottles, fleas, beetles and maggots,
woodworm, woodlice, moths, bees and silverfish.
Forty-seven library books were brought to the Department
during the year for disinfection on account of being in contact with
cases of infectious disease.
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