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38
DISINFECTION.
During the year disinfection has been carried
out at 73 premises in which the following cases of
infectious disease have occurred:—
Scarlet Fever 37
Diphtheria 23
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 24
Acute Poliomyelitis 1
Puerperal Fever 2
Disinfection was also carried out at sixteen
premises after deaths from non-notifiable diseases
on the occupiers of the houses in which the deaths
occurred agreeing to pay the expense.
The Public Elementary Schools were, as usual,
■disinfected as arranged with the Managers and the
Surrey County Education Committee, the walls,
floors and ceilings being sprayed with Formaldehyde
during the Easter, Summer and Christmas
vacations.
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:—