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Disinfecting Apparatus.
The Chairman of the Sanitary Committee requested
me some time since to be prepared with
such information and suggestions as might be
useful to the Committee in discussing what steps
should be taken to carry out in this Parish that
clause in the Sanitary Act which empowers them
to provide for the disinfection of clothes, bedding,
&c. Although the infectious diseases have not
assumed a magnitude in this Parish that warrants
me in demanding a special disinfecting establishment
for all classes to avail themselves of it gratuitously
in case of necessity; it cannot be denied
that such an opportunity ought to be at hand, and
might in some instances check the advance of
scarlatina, measles, and smallpox. I look forward,
however, to a time when the Vestry will take into
consideration the wider question of increased facilities
generally for personal ablution and changes of
linen and clothing, by establishing in this Parish
a Public Laundry and Baths, to which should be
attached an efficient disinfecting and cleansingapparatus
for persons' clothes, bedding and linen
that require it. The fever ambulance, now more
rarely in use than formerly, is however always
in readiness, and as it, too, needs disinfection and
airing every time it is used, it ought to be placed
under the charge of the attendant attached to a
disinfecting apparatus, if one should be established.