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three previous years. There were 207 inspections made, and
6 notices served. Regulations, embodying the provisions for
ice-cream shops contained in the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, are distributed at every shop on the
register.
Disinfection.
42. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff, &c.,
were fully described in my Annual Report, 1903, pages 73-76.
Rooms at 1,408 houses were disinfected, compared with 987,
1,392, and 1,133, in the three preceding years. The disinfecting
apparatus was used 1,302 times for 18,581 articles.
319 books from the Free Libraries were disinfected.
The sum of £7 1s. 0d. 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, for
personal use in infectious disease, and for use by the contractor
in dust receptacles. They are dispensed at the Maxey Eoad
offices; the Sun Street Mortuary (73 persons were supplied in
1908, and 110 in 1909); 18, Barge House Eoad, North
Woolwich; and at the Eltham office, 144a, High Street (23
persons supplied). The cost of disinfectants used by the
department in 1909 was £35 6s. 9d.
The disinfectants used were Corrosive Sublimate; Sulphur
and Formalin tablets (for fumigation); Formaldehyde (for
spraying and disinfecting books, and for use in the Mortuary);
Cyllin (for sputa in phthisis); Permanganate of Potash; Jeyes
Corporation Fluid (for dust-pails); and Chloride of Lime (for
offal tins).