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LABORATORY FACILITIES.
Pathological outfits are supplied to medical practitioners and
specimens from their patients residing in the district are examined
free of charge.
Specimens examined during the year were as follows:—
For the detection of tubercle bacilli 66
„ „ „ „ diphtheria bacilli 113
„ „ „ „ typhoid bacilli (fæces) 2
Total 181
DISINFECTION OF ROOMS AND ARTICLES, AND
DISINFESTATION.
(a) Disinfection after infectious disease.
The number of rooms disinfected after infectious disease during
1939 was 93. This work is undertaken by the staff of the Public
Health Department.
Infected bedding and clothing is steam-disinfected after removal
to the Disinfecting Station attached to the Isolation Hospital. During
1939 138 lots of bedding and clothing were steam-disinfected.
(b) Disinfestation.
Bedding and bedclothing from bug-infested houses is disinfested
by steam at the Disinfecting Station. During 1939 3 lots of
bedding from houses in slum clearance areas, and 27 lots of bedding
from other houses from which the tenants were rehoused in Council
houses, were dealt with by steam-disinfestation.
(c) Destruction of bedding and other articles.
Twenth-three lots of bedding, clothing or other articles which had
been infected, or were infested with vermin, were destroyed on request.
CLEANSING AND DISINFESTATION OF VERMINOUS
PERSONS.
During 1939 only 1 child was treated at the Cleansing Station
for verminous condition of the head; 4 children attended for the
treatment of scabies.
Six adults were treated for scabies during the year.