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DISINFECTION.
(a) Rooms.— During 1924 there were 2,117 rooms fumigated
and 536 rooms cleansed in the Borough by the staff of the
Public Health Department. In these totals are included disinfections
after measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis, in addition
to those in connection with the present notifiable infectious diseases.
The number of rooms fumigated and cleansed each month is
set out in the following table:—

(b) Articles of Clothing, Furniture, etc.— The number of
articles under this head disinfected during last year was 22,194.
This is an increase of 7,664 upon the number disinfected during
1923. A table is here given showing details of the articles disinfected
each month.