Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall-Norwood]
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Vaccination.
Total number of successful Vaccination Certificates received during
the year, 282.
Total number of Exemptions, 259.
Disinfection.
In cases of infectious disease, rooms, clothing, &c., are disinfected,
rooms by sealing and fumigating with formalin or a formalin preparation ;
clothing, bedding, &c., and infected articles which can be removed for steam
disinfection, in the disinfector at the hospital.
List of Articles Disinfected during the year.
Table No. 25.
No. of rooms disinfected | 378 |
No. of beds disinfected | 357 |
No. of blankets disinfected | 639 |
No. of bolsters disinfected | 202 |
No. of books disinfected | 187 |
No. of covers disinfected | 313 |
No. of eiderdowns disinfected | 119 |
No. of pillows disinfected | 582 |
No. of sheets disinfected | 506 |
No. of miscellaneous | 29 |
Total | 3312 |
Beds | 26 |
Bolsters | 4 |
Blankets | 2 |
Covers | 3 |
Pillows | 13 |
Wearing apparrel | 25 |
Total | 73 |