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In consequence of complaints having been made in the latter
part of 1880, that the men employed in disinfecting houses were
in the habit of stopping at public houses on their way back to
the disinfecting chamber, I directed the infected beds, bedding,
&o., to be partially disinfected by burning sulphur in the room
containing them, before their removal. This plan ought to be
uuiversally adopted, as it is much better than the use of a blouse
over the clothes, for it is evident as the men have to carry
the infected beds into the road before placing them in the truck,
that if not previously disinfected, passers by may be infected,
and the clothes of the men employed in the work may also
become infected. As the position of the old disinfecting
chamber was very close to houses, a new one was provided
adjoining the Lea Cut. Messrs. Fraser's disinfecting apparatus
and trucks are those in use, and have answered very well.

In addition to the articles disinfected, 50 beds, 38 mattresses,
6 palliasses, 3 bolsters, 14 pillows, 2 blankets, 3 soldiers' kits,
and 7 other articles were removed from infected houses and
burnt at the request of the owners; also 298 houses were
disinfected by the occupiers to the satisfaction of the medical
attendants of the families.
The chief sanitary work performed during the year, besides
that ordinarily carried on, consisted in the removal of bell-traps
and the substitution of yard gullies; in the disconnection