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The number of miles covered by the disinfecting vans
during the year was 25,224; this gives an average of 23.3 miles
per day for each van.
Disinfection of premises and rooms is also carried out by
the Public Health Department. There are four disinfectors whose
main duty is to disinfect premises and rooms after the removal to
hospital, or death, of a patient suffering from an infectious disease,
or by request of relatives in the case of non-infectious disease.
During the year 1937 the number of premises disinfected was
2,072, and the number of rooms was 2,596. Further details of
this work are given in Table XII.