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Sanitary Administration.
In those cases where library books have been used or have
been in contact with the patient either directly or indirectly, they
are destroyed at the Disinfecting Station and compensation for
them paid to the Library by the Council.
All bedding and other articles used by a patient are removed
in a special van to the Disinfecting Station at the Hospital. The
premises are thoroughly inspected by the Assistant Inspector, and,
where necessary, notice is served by the Medical Officer of Health
to secure the abatement of any nuisances discovered.
The old method of Fumigation has been abandoned and
practically all disinfection is now done by means of the Formalin
Spray.
When the work is in progress, frequent visits are made to see
that the work necessary is properly carried out.
By this system of proper inspection and supervision, should
further cases occur, one is assured that everything reasonably asked
for has been done to improve the hygienic condition of the premises.
The notifiable diseases are:—Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria
(Membranous Croup), Erysipelas, Scarlet Fever, and the Fevers
known as Typhus, Typhoid, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal;
also Tuberculosis—pulmonary and non-pulmonary, Epidemic Poliomyelitis,
and Cerebro-spinal Fever.
With regard to the last two diseases, these were made notifiable
by this Council before the Compulsory Order of the L.G.B.
came into force.