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The beef and bacon were removed to the Council's piggeries
and boiled down as food for the pigs. The other unsound food was
buried in lime by the owners in their gardens.
Disinfection.
The methods in use in this District are:—
Rooms sprayed with 2% solution of Formic Aldehyde: bedding
clothes, etc., removed (by arrangement with the Joint Hospital
Authorities) for steam disinfection.
A small disinfection hand pump was purchased by the Council
in place of a large pump which was worn out. This greatly facilitates
the work.
All disinfection of rooms is carried out free of charge by the
Council to the residents in the District, and the bedding, clothes,
etc., after notifiable cases of fever and tuberculosis, steam disinfected
by the Joint Hospital Authorities. The articles are collected, disinfected
and returned free of charge.
Owing to the increased cost of horse hire, labour, etc., the Joint
Isolation Hospital Authorities have now made a charge of 17/6 per
journey to residents in this district for the disinfection of bedding,
clothes, etc., after all non-notifiable diseases.
The Council recently gave instructions that disinfectant soap be
purchased and supplies given free after all cases of infectious disease;
also in other cases where supplies are thought to be desirable. This
should greatly influence people to thoroughly cleanse their premises
and so ward off any likelihood of recurring cases.