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Special certificates are forwarded to the school teachers, if any
occupants of the house attend school, the milk-seller, and to
the librarian at the Public Library. Any books which may be in
the house, borrowed from the Library, are taken to Mogden to be
disinfected by Formaldehyde gas, or destroyed. Where a medical
practitioner at the time of notifying a case gives satisfactory
reasons to the Medical Officer of Health why a case should be removed
to the Isolation Hospital, this is always acted upon previous
to malting the usual investigations.
Disinfection. Upon the removal or termination of an infectious
case the bedding and clothing are removed to Mogden
to be disinfected by steam. If the case is one of Small-pox the
articles are removed to Dockwell for disinfection. The walls,
ceilings and floors of the rooms are sprayed with solution of
Formalin. Under certain circumstances books are disinfected in a
special apparatus at Mogden. Disinfectant fluid and powder are
supplied to householders free of cost from the Health Department.
Infectious These Hospitals are under a Joint Committee of
Diseases representatives of the Borough of Richmond and the
tyospitals. Urban District Council of Heston and Isleworth, and
have been fully described in previous reports.
The two authorities have not yet come to any agreement as to
enlargement of Mogden Hospital. The Heston and Isleworth
District Council have laid the correspondence before the Local
Government Board, and the suggestions of the latter authority
should lead to an early settlement of the matter.