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Officer of Health. Immediately on receipt of a notification,
enquiries are at once made at the premises of
which the patient is an inmate, and where removal to
the Council's Isolation Hospital is desirable, arrangements
are made and the removal of the patient
superintended by one of the sanitary staff.
Disinfection by means of spraying with formalin or
by fumigation with formaldehyde is carried out after
the removal or convalescence of infectious patients, and
where necessary infected articles are removed for steam
disinfection. Notices are also served requiring the
thorough stripping, disinfection and cleansing of the
infected and other rooms where such work is certified
by the Medical Officer of Health as being necessary for
the prevention of the spread of infectious disease.
With regard to the sanitary condition of the houses
from whence cases of infectious disease were notified,
I have to report that in very few instances was a
nuisance found to exist, and such a result can only be
attained by a system of sanitary supervision such as
your Committee have approved of.
I may mention that the disinfection of rooms and
infected articles has been carried out after all cases of
phthisis which have been brought to our notice
and also after cases of cancer, etc., where required
by the occupiers of the infected houses.
Factory and Workshop Acts.
A register of all workshops in this district is kept as
required by statute, and in addition, particulars of the
various factories are included in order that the