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Powers) Act, are distributed at every shop on the register.
The shops are inspected in April, June, and August, by
Inspector Powell.
DISINFECTION.
41. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff,
etc., were fully described in my Annual Report, 1903, pages
73-76. Rooms at 1,195 houses were disinfected, compared
with 987, 964, and 1,093, in the three preceding years. The
disinfecting apparatus was used 1,195 times for 40,591 articles.
358 books from the Free Libraries and Public Schools
were disinfected.
The sum of £6 7s. 1d. was received for disinfection of
rooms in special cases, on request of the occupier.
A large quantity of horsehair was disinfected for the
Army Ordnance Store Department, for the sum of £15 8s. 6d.
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 Road Depot, the Sun Street Mortuary (105
persons supplied), 14, Barge House Road, North Woolwich
(20 persons supplied), and at 144a, High Street, Eltham
(78 persons supplied). The cost of disinfectants used by the
Department in 1912 was £42 16s. 3d.
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).