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One private school was disinfected on account of measles.
Disinfectants were supplied to occupiers of all infected
premises, and in the cases of home treatment disinfectants were
supplied during the whole time.
Printed instructions are always left at the house in all home
cases.
Where necessary after disinfection the owners or occupiers
are required to strip the walls of any old paper, cleanse the walls
and cleanse and whitewash the ceilings. The houses are always
inspected as to their sanitary condition, and the drains tested with
the smoke machine test, upon the occurrence of any infectious
disease.
In small property constantly inhabited the only safe course
for the prevention of infection is to insist upon the walls being
stripped clean to the surface every time the walls are redecorated
by papering or distemper. Even if this was done only when
houses changed tenants, it would be a great gain in the prevention
of the spread of disease. It is quite as important as defective
drainage, because the infection spread in this manner is more
insidious and difficult to detect.
A table will be found on page 54, giving the streets in the
District where Infectious Diseases occurred, and will be found very
useful for comparison in future years.