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DISINFECTION.
(a) Rooms.—During 1929 there were 2,705 rooms fumigated in
the Borough by the staff of the Public Health Department. In these
totals are included disinfections after measles and whooping cough,
in addition to those in connection with the present notifiable infectious
diseases.
The number of rooms fumigated each month is set out in the
following table: —
Number of rooms fumigated each month during 1929.
January 189
February 213
March 186
April 209
May 250
June 164
July 208
August 170
September 194
October 305
November 331
December 286
Total 2,705
(b) Articles of Clothing, Furniture, etc.—The number of articles
under this head disinfected during last year was 66,341. This is an
increase of 7,429 upon the number disinfected during 1928. A
table is here given showing details of the articles disinfected each
month.