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All the disinfections—a few under special circumstances excepted—
were carried out by the Council's employees, and clothing, bedding,
etc., were treated by steam under pressure.
Outfits for early Diphtheria and Typhoid diagnoses are kept at the
Public Health Offices, as well as a supply of anti-diphtheritic serum for
gratuitous injection for those unable to pay. The latter could also be
had at the Tramway Offices during the day, and at all times at the Fire
Station.
With such facilities injection could be performed within an hour or
two of diagnosis.
One hundred and twenty-five bottles of serum were supplied during
the year to practitioners, and of these 31 were paid for.
The deaths from Phthisis given in the weekly returns of the Registrar
are noted, and without unnecessary delay intimation is sent to the
relatives of the value of disinfection of rooms occupied by consumptives
with an offer to disinfect.
In this way thirty-five were carried out, and a great deal of good
done in the way of education as well as prevention.
When disease might reasonably be attributed to school attendance
the schools were visited and the children of the suspected classrooms
examined, and any scholars presenting suspicious symptoms excluded.
This was followed by subsequent disinfection of the schoolroom and its
contents. Six schools were for this reason disinfected once, and one
school on three occasions.
With the non-notifiable diseases of Measles and Whooping Cough,
exclusion from school was insisted upon for those under 10 years of age
from infected houses, and all children from houses where isolation was
not practised.