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Authentication of Internations Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation.
A person proceeding abroad is required in certain
countries to produce a certificate of recent successful
vaccination and inoculation. The signatures of 240 such
certificates were verified by me during the year as those of
medical practitioners practising in. Stepney, and the certificates
were endorsed accordingly.
Disinfection.
249 premises were' disinfected because of infectious
disease,at which 20 were for pulmonary tuberculosis.
66,231 articles of clothing and bedding were steam
disinfected, including 53,724 articles for export, for which
142 certificates were issued.
Formaldehyde disinfection of 274,824 articles of clothing
for export was also carried out during the year, for which 414
certificates were issued.
Charges for the export disinfecting service amounted to
£445.
Disinfestation (3ed buges and other insect pegts). .
The following is a summary of work carried out by the
specialist inspectors
General inspections for vermin 1,595
Attempted visits 342
No. of premises found verminous 367
No. of revisits 466
No. of miscellaneous visits 808
No. of premises sprayed 812
No. of rooms sprayed 1,605 *
(*) Including 193 rooms dealt with at the request
of Sanitary Inspectors.
As a precautionary measure, the furniture and effects of
all families transferred to Borough Council dwellings are
treated, prior to removal, with hydrogen cyanide at the
Council's Disinfestation Station, 42 Narrow Street. The furniture
and effects of 350 such families were treated during the
year.
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