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Housing repairs, necessitated by enemy action carried out
under the supervision of the Engineer and Surveyor, are not
included in this report.
Disinfection.
In connection with cases of infectious disease, 207 rooms and
242 library books were fumigated. Fifty-eight lots of bedding were
steam disinfected.
Vermin Control.
Persons.
For the cleansing of verminous persons and their personal clothing
the Council have established a Cleansing Station, equipped with
a Thresh Steam Disinfector in Rochester' Road. A trained nurse '
is in attendance to deal with women and children, and a male operator
for the men.
Financial arrangements have been made with the Education
Authority for the treatment of school children. The nurse in charge
undertakes the following up of the families affected to ensure that
treatment is carried to a successful conclusion. The homes are also
visited by the Sanitary Inspectors when necessary, and appropriate
action in respect of the premises taken as required.
The following cases were dealt with at the Council's Station
during the year: —
Families. Persons. Attendances.
For scabies 222 691 1327
For pediculosis 35 113 226
257 804 1553
School children included in these totals were : —
For scabies 205 For pediculosis 75
Where possible, the practice of treating all members of affected
families is followed.
The Sanitary Inspectors visited 92 houses, and arranged for the
treatment of 421 persons in the operation of the Scabies Order, 1941.
Premises.
The previous practice of hydrogen cyanide fumigation for
premises badly infested by the bed bug had to be suspended during
the war, and has not yet been resumed. Eighteen properties were
treated by insecticidal spraying as follows: —
Council Houses 4
Other Houses 13
C.D. Premises 1
Six other L.C.C. houses were sprayed by the staff of that Authority.
Fumigation and spraying is carried out by the department, using
formaldehyde blocks and various insecticidal liquids. Towards the
end of the year experiments for the eradication of bed bugs and other
insects by the use of D.D.T. in vapour form were being made.
Thirty-eight lots of bedding were steam disinfected, and two
lots destroyed during the year.
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