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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following number of rooms were disinfected for the
undermentioned causes:—
Scarlet fever 23
Tuberculosis 40
Vermin 14
Suspected Diphtheria 2
Chicken Pox 3
Whooping Cough 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 10
A number of books from the public library and schools
were also disinfected as far as practicable for a variety of reasons.
Seventeen loads of bedding were removed for steam disinfection
or destruction.
Routine disinfection after Scarlet Fever is not now carried
out and is only done in those cases where a request is made.
Instead a bottle of disinfectant is left and advice given as to
the best method to be employed in dealing with the bedroom
used by the patient. It is now well known that the incidence of
this disease is not affected by failure to do ordinary fumigation.
Efforts are made, however, to ensure that disinfection is
carried out after death and where patients suffering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis move. There are, however, difficulties
in ensuring that this is always done. Disinfection is sometimes
declined but in these cases it is generally found that adequate
measures have already been taken.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.