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SCABIES AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS, Facilities for the treatment of scabies and
verminous conditions are provided in the Cleansing Centre at Millfields Disinfecting
Station,
Formal notification of scabies was received in respect of thirteen adults
and five children but a total of 113 cases of scabies, as well as 572 cases of
infestation by lice, were treated at the Centre.
For a number of years an agreement has operated with the London County
Council whereby the treatment of minor ailments, scabies and verminous conditions
in children for whom that Authority is responsible is carried out at the
Centre by, and under the supervision of, a County Council school nurse. At
the request of the Boroughs of Walthamstow and Leyton and the Forest Divisional
Executive of the Essex Education Committee, facilities have also been extended
to these three Authorities for the treatment of scabies and verminous conditions
in persons from their areas.

Preventive treatment was afforded to some 22 persons who had been in close
contact with sufferers from scabies.

DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION. The Borough Council's Disinfecting Station
is situated in Millfields Road, The staff comprises a superintendent, a deputy
superintendent, six drivers, a handyman, two disinfectors, two labourers, one
apparatus attendant and six women laundry and cleansing centre attendants. The
deputy superintendent resides at the Lodge provided at the Station.
One block of buildings, consisting of four units of living accommodation,
each containing three rooms, was provided some years ago for the isolation of
contacts of cases of serious infectious disease. The two ground floor units
of this block have been equipped as a Cleansing Centre and are in daily use for
that purpose but the two first floor units are furnished and ready for occupation
by contacts of infectious disease should the need arise.
The disinfection plant, housed in another building, comprises two large
steam disinfectors, a smaller steam disinfector, a formalin chamber, a phenol
chamber, airing and drying rooms, bathrooms, laundry, stores and boiler house.
A third block of buildings is equipped for disinfestation by hydrogen cyanide.
For this purpose there are three specially constructed brick chambers, two of
which are sufficiently spacious to accommodate large furniture vans. Destruction
of unwholesome materials, unsound foods, etc., is carried out by burning in
a brick-built incinerator. Garage accommodation for the seven vehicles used
by the Department is also available at the Station,
The laundry section of the Station deals with articles of clothing after
disinfection, laundry of incontinent persons, as well as articles of clothing