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Disinfection.
I.—All soiled linen should be at once placed in a tub of
water to which a handful of ordinary washing soda has been
added, soaked for 12 hours, and then boiled in a copper.
Materials which cannot be boiled should be soaked for one
hour in liquid disinfectant, and then washed.
2.—Special cups, saucers, and spoons should be used for
the patient, and any spare food from the sick room destroyed.
3.—Discharges from ear, nose, or mouth should be received
on a rag, which should be at once burnt, as also should any
dust collected in the room.
4.—When the patient is free from infection, the Council
undertake the disinfection of the sick room, bedding, &c., free
of cost. The accompanying card should be returned when
the patient is free from infection.
Disinfectants are supplied free to home cases once a week
on application to the Sanitary Inspector, Council Offices, New
Maiden, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
RASHELL DAVISON, M.D., M.R.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.
A penalty of £5 is attached to the exposure of infected
persons and things.
Measles.
Four hundred and sixty-eight cases were reported, all in New
Maiden.
During March, April, May, June, measles attacked children in
both public and private schools.
Of the 468 cases reported,
280 occurred in the Public Elementary Schools.
31 in Private Schools.
17 Adults.
188 in children not of school age.
The schools were disinfected on several occasions, but the
disease was so mild, parents did not always think it necessary to
report cases, and so many more must have had the disease than
were reported.
Only six deaths were recorded as due to Measles.