View report page

52
CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL
EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
Arrangements are made for this work to be
carried out at the Laboratories of the Clinical
Research Association, York Buildings, Adelphi,
W.C.2.
DISINFECTION.
During the year disinfection has been carried
out at 148 premises in which the following cases of
infectious diseases have occurred:—
Scarlet Fever 81
Diphtheria 45
Tuberculosis 14
Pneumonia 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 5
Typhoid Fever 1
Disinfection was also carried out at seventeen
premises after cases of non-notifiable diseases on
the occupiers of the houses in which the cases
occurred agreeing to pay the expense. Seventeen
premises were disinfected, and otherwise treated to
abate infestation by vermin.
The Public Elementary Schools were disinfected
as arranged with the Managers and Surrey Education
Committee; the walls, floors, and ceilings being
sprayed with formaldehyde during the Easter vacation.
School disinfection at Mid-Summer and
Christmas was discontinued on the grounds of
economy.
The following articles of bedding, wearing
apparel, etc., were removed to the Tolworth Isolation
Hospital for steam disinfection under the
superintendence of the Hospital staff:—