Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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(e) When the person affected is at the time of the attack in
attendance at school, or where there are other children residing in
the same house, these shall be prohibited from any further
attendance until disinfection has taken place.
(f) When the case is one of Small Pox, notice shall be given to
the Vaccination Officer, in order that the inmate may be vaccinated.
(c) A list of infected houses shall be despatched weekly to the
schools, and public libraries of the parish.
V. Disixfectiox.
(a) Upon the removal of a patient to the hospital, or in eases
treated at home. when the period of infection is at an end, the
room recently occupied by the patient shall be closed, sealed, an I
fumigated with sulphur vapour.
(4) A notice shall be served upon the landlord to strip the paper
from the walls, whitewash, and cleanse.
(r) The bedding shall be removed to the Disinfecting Chamber
at the Wharf, and subjected to a temperature of 300 degrees
Fahrenheit.
(d) Articles of clothing, sheets, etc., shall be steeped in a
solution of carbolic acid.
(e) Disinfectants shall be supplied at the infected houses from
time to time.
VI. Saxitatiox.
(а) Notice shall be served on the landlord to make good defects
in the sanitary appliances, to re-lay the drains, ventilate, lay on
water supply, to do any or all these things as required.
(b) Whilst the work of redrainage is in progress, the Inspector
shall pay a daily visit of inspection, and when the men employed
show a disposition to scamp the work, the Sanitary Inspector shall
inspect and give instructions in even- stage of the work.
(r) When the work is completed, the whole shall be inspected,
and the drain test applied.
VII. Regulatioxs foe the Reconstelctiox of Deaixs.
1. The House Diain shall be disconnected from the Sewer by
means of a Syphon Trap.