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been disinfected by your officers during the year,
it being the practice to disinfect every room, as
well as the articles contained therein, in which sick
persons suffering from infectious or contagious diseases
have been lodged. But besides this, as many
as 434 miscellaneous articles of bedding and clothing
have been removed to the disinfecting chambers in
Golden Lane, and have either been destroyed or
thoroughly disinfected, and restored to their owners.
These articles consisted of 161 beds, 25 pillows, 16
blankets, 16 sheets, 14 mattresses, 10 quilts, 8 bolsters,
3 carpets, 81 articles of clothing, and 100 sundries.
The beneficial results of these proceedings have been
most conclusive, for in no case has there been a
recurrence of disease from the use of any of the
disinfected articles or of the rooms so treated.
I have also to report to you, that during the year the
Keeper of the Mortuary has received 92 dead bodies
from the dwelling-rooms of the poor, and has kept
them in decent custody until the time of burial. It
is hardly necessary to say that this has been of the
utmost advantage to those who would otherwise
have had to retain their dead in the midst of the
living, and thus to have encountered the danger of
infection, as well as the noisome effects of putrefactive
decomposition.