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CLEANSING, DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
A total of 199 adults and 117 children under five years were treated
for scabies and 25 adults and 47 children under five years of age
treated for vermin at the Shoreditch Health Centre. Normally two
treatments are required to clear a case of scabies and one for vermin.
Arrangements have been made with other areas for the treatment at
the bathing centre of residents from their areas.
The Department is also responsible for the disinfestation of
verminous rooms and articles and a total of 1004 rooms and 1130 articles
were treated.
Certain foreign countries prohibit the importation of second hand
clothing unless a certificate that the articles have been disinfected
can be produced. A charge is made to private firms wishing to have
second hand clothing disinfected for this purpose.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESS
Pur skin dressing is the only offensive business in the Borough
and at the beginning of the year was in operation at one factory.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES
There are none in the Borough.
MORTUARY
The Council's mortuary adjoins the churchyard of the Parish Church
of St. John at Hackney and provides refrigerated accommodation for 15
bodies.
There is an arrangement with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
for receiving bodies from the Bethnal Green Area, the cost being shared
on a population basis.