[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames].

  • Kingston upon Thames (London, England). Council.
Date:
[1922?]
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    17 DISINFECTION. Three hundred and seventy-two rooms have been dis infected in 326 houses during. 1921, as compared with 296 rooms in 253 houses during 1920. The Council possess a Velox high-pressure steam disinfecting apparatus, which is contained in a convenient building adjacent to the Electricity Works. Steam for use in connection with the apparatus is obtained from the Elec tricity Works, and is available at all times. The erection of the premises and machine was completed in May, 1921, and since the end of June no less than 2,329 articles have been passed through the apparatus. In addition, all infected rooms and furniture, etc., are sprayed and fumigated with formalin. HOUSE DRAINAGE. Thirty houses were re-drained during the year. In order to ascertain correctly the condition of drains in 16 cases it was necessary for the Corporation to avail them selves of the powers conferred upon them by Section 41 of the Public Health Act, 1875, to authorise your Sanitary In spector to enter the premises, open up the ground and ex amine the drains, etc. In other cases, however, the owners had the necessary excavations carried out themselves, and have afforded all reasonable facilities to your Sanitary In spector to apply tests to the drains. The following premises were re-drained during the year:— Caversham Road 3 houses. Cambridge Road 1 house. Fife Road 4 houses. Mill Street 2 houses. London Road 1 house. St. Albans Road 1 house. Clarence Street 4 houses. Beaufort Road 1 house. Knights Park 3 houses. Shortlands Road 1 house. Lower Ham Road 1 house. Fairfield West 1 house. Canbury Place 2 houses. Springfield Road 3 houses. Park Road 1 house. Surhiton Road 1 house. Total 30 houses.