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authorities that the disinfection and cleansing of bedding
and clothes may be effected without the least annoyance
to anyone. Plans and details of an apparatus have
been carefully prepared, and it might be ready for
action as soon as a site could be selected. The principle
of heat, without using any of the smelling or disinfectant
chemicals can be relied upon ; but where sulphur,
chlorine, or other gases are used, the vapours are to be
carried off, after passing through the heating flues.
There need not be the least exposure of infected things
passing through the streets. A covered iron vehicle
being so used, that by Frazer's method, the things are
conveyed from the house and returned to the owners
in a securely closed carriage. It is however most
essential, in my opinion, that a washing room, drying
closet, and an ironing room adjoining, should also be
provided, so that no laundress need be compelled to
receive infected articles with her other washing, and so
risk the dissemination of the poison of an infectious
disease.
The Workshops Regulation Act.
During the latter part of last year the Inspector of
Factories expressed a desire to have a return of the probable
number of establishments under inspection in the
Metropolitan Districts under the Workshops Regulation
Act of 1867, with a view of presenting to Parliament
in connexion with a similar return of the Factories.