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Influenza.—In March, 1805, a letter was received
from the Local Government Board, forwarding
copies of a Memorandum which they have caused
to be prepared by their Medical Officer with reference
to the recurrence of Epidemic Influenza.
Disinfecting Apparatus.—The Vestry have considered
a letter from the County Council, forwarding
a report showing the arrangements now in force
in the several sanitary districts of the Metropolis
for the disinfection and destruction of infected
articles, and calling special attention to the statement
contained therein, that disinfection by dry
heat is a much less satisfactory process than disinfection
by steam, and expressing the hope that the
Vestry will see its way to substitute a steam
disinfector for the dry heat apparatus now in use.
The present apparatus of the Vestry was improved
some little time ago by the substitution of a gas
heating apparatus for the coke fire, and as no fresh
case of infection has ever occurred through insufficient
disinfection performed by the apparatus, the
Council has been informed that the Vestry is satisfied
with its apparatus, and sees no sufficient
reason for doing away with it at present.
Certificates of Disinfection.—A letter has been
received from the School Board, asking that a
certificate may be given to the head teachers
of schools attended by children who may be suffering
from infectious disease, or by any child who is
an inmate of the same house as the patient when
the disinfection of the premises is completed. The
Public Health (London) Act requires that the
Medical Officer of Health shall send notices to the
head teachers of the existence of disease, but
difficulty has arisen by the teachers not knowing
when they may safely re-admit the children