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84
Number of houses visited re Zymotic Enteritis 210
Do. do. revisited do. 180
Do. do. visited for other causes 18
Workshops.
Number of Inspections (January) 49
Do. notices served 6
Do. cases referred to District Inspectors 2
Do. new workrooms measured 14
Homeworkers, Premises.
Number of Inspections 105
Do. Cases referred to District Inspectors 14
Disinfectants.
53. Disinfectants are not used by this Department in the
wholesale manner that has been the fashion in some places. It
is useless to attempt to disinfect the air, for impure air can be
more easily be exchanged for pure air. It is impracticable to disinfect
waterclosets, drains and sewers. Defects, and smells from
these are to be remedied not by disinfectants, but by reconstruction
and flushing. But when infection is actually known to exist
disinfectants should be used unsparingly. They are supplied by
the Department for disinfecting infected soiled linen, infected
stools, sputa in phthisis, for personal use in infectious disease,
and for disinfecting rooms after infectious disease. They are
dispensed at the Maxey Road Offices, the Sun Street Mortuary,
18, Barge House Road, North Woolwich, and the Eltham Office,
112, High Street. The cost of the disinfectants used by the
Department in 1905 was £28 6s. 9d.
The disinfectants used were Jeyes' Soap, Corrosive Sublimate,
Formalin Tablets (for fumigation), Formaldehyde (for spraying
and disinfecting books), Cyllin (for sputa in phthisis)