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Disinfection.
42. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff, etc.,
were fully described in my Annual Report, 1903, pages 73-76.
Rooms at 1133 bouses were disinfected, compared with 910,
987, and 1392, in tbe three preceding years. The disinfecting
apparatus was used 886 times for 11,111 articles.
291 books from the Free Libraries were disinfected.
The sum of £3 3s. 6d. was received for disinfection of rooms
in special cases on request of the occupier.
Disinfectants are supplied by the Department for disinfecting
infected soiled linen, infected stools, sputa in phthisis, and for
personal use in infectious disease. They are dispensed at the
Maxey Road Offices; the Sun Street Mortuary (73 persons
were supplied last year); 18, Bargehouse Road, North Woolwich
(50 persons supplied last year); and at the Eltham Office,
144a, High Street. The cost of disinfectants used by the
department in 1908 was £45 14s. 0d.
The disinfectants used were Corrosive Sublimate ; Formalin
tablets (for fumigation); Formaldehyde (for spraying and disinfecting
books, and for use in the Mortuary); Cyllin (for sputa
in phthisis); Permanganate of Potash; Coarse Carbolic (for
dust-pails); and Chloride of Lime (for offal tins).
Health Shelter.
43. The Health Shelter was used once for three persons.
The Health Shelter was used twice in 1906, and not at all in
1903, 1904, 1905 and 1907. In view of the small use to which
it is put, the upper of the two flats was let in the spring, and
has been occupied since on a weekly tenancy.