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notice was served and complied with. Very little difficulty
was found in getting the vendors to do the necessary work
and the result has been a great improvement in the condition
of these shops.
DISINFECTION.
47. The mode of disinfection, cost of appliances, staff,
etc., were fully described in my Annual Report, 1903, pages
73-76. Rooms at 1,344 houses were disinfected in 1914,
compared with 1,093, 1,195, and 1,278, in the three preceding
years.
The disinfecting apparatus was used 1,344 times for 29,568
articles.
411 books from the Free Libraries and Public Schools
were disinfected.
The sum of £18 9s. 2d. was received for disinfection inspecial
cases on request of the occupier.
A large quantity of horsehair was disinfected for the
Army Ordnance Store Department, for the sum of £52 12s. 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 (224 persons supplied in 1914), the
Sun Street Mortuary (53 persons supplied), 14, Barge House
Road, North Woolwich (43 persons supplied), and at 144a,
High Street, Eltham (114 persons supplied). The cost of
disinfectants used by the Department in 1914 was £37 9s. 2d.
The disinfectants used were Corrosive Sublimate; Sulphur