[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1956]
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    32 DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT 2,772 rooms and 4,894 articles of bedding and clothing were disinfected during the year, among them being the rooms and articles used by the 583 cases of various forms of infectious disease taken to hospital. 201 certificates of disinfection were issued, and 190 library books dealt with from the 4, 179 premises visited during the year The clean van was used regularly for the delivery of stores to the day nurseries and to the Welfare Centres 230 houses were treated for bed bugs and in them 664 separate rooms were sprayed with Vermacine, a preparation of 5 per cent. D.D.T with Pyrethrum as a 'Knockout'. It was necessary to treat 39 houses a second time.