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disinfection.
41. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff,
etc., were fully described in my Annual Report, 1903,
pages 73-76. Rooms at 964 houses were disinfected, compared
with 1,392, 1,333, and 987, in the three preceding
years. The disinfecting apparatus was used 939 times for
18,200 articles.
375 books from the Free Libraries and Public Schools
were disinfected.
The sum of £4 8s. Od. 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 infections disease, and for
use by the contractor in dust receptacles. They are dispensed
at the Maxey Road Depot the Sun Street Mortuary
(73 persons were supplied in 1908, 110 in 1909 and 71 in
1910), 14, Barge House Road, North Woolwich (18 persons
supplied), and at the Eltham Office, 144a, High Street (24
persons supplied). The cost of disinfectants used by the
department in 1910 was £41 8s. l0d.
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.).
Health Shelter.
42. The Health Shelter was not used during the year.