408
DISINFECTING STATION.
At the latter end of the year the steam disinfecting apparatus was removed from the temporary building in High Street and installed in the new brick building in Taipingshan.
The system of disinfection of infected buildings has also been re-organized, and a staff of native workers is now being trained by First-class Inspector REIDIE, who has the sole charge of this work and who occupies official quarters at the Disinfecting Station. Perchloride of Mercury sprays have been in use now for some few years for the disinfection of buildings and in the hands of trained men, they have been found to give satisfaction.
The following is a return of the number of articles which have passed through the steam disin- fecting apparatus during the year :-
Articles removed from private houses,
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Tung Wa Hospital,
ور
Government Civil Hospital,
12
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Victoria Gaol,.....
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Military Barracks,
..90,806
2,860
1,114
381
382
Government clothing used by persons who had been exposed to infection,... 3,901
Total,.
STAFF.
..99,444
During the year Inspectors MCVICAR and WILMER left the service, and Inspector BURNETT was transferred to the Department of the Postmaster General. Inspectors BROWN, O'DONNELL and O'KIEFFE were appointed to fill the vacancies, while three additional Inspectors are now expected from England. Inspector REIDIE was on leave in Europe for a period of nine months, and took the opportunity of studying the methods of disinfection in vogue in some of the larger cities and of examining the many forms of apparatus for this purpose which were displayed at the Paris Exhibi- tion.
The following is a list of the Inspectors of Nuisances in the employ of the Board at the end of the year:
Chief Inspector of Nuisances.
Mr. J. H. DANDY.
First Class Inspectors.
Inspector J. REIDIE.
F. FISHER.
L. BRETT (acting).
Second and Third Class Inspectors.
No. 1 Health District,.....Iusp. W. FINCHER.
No. 9 Health District,......Insp. H. BROWN.
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H. KNIGHT.
C. W. BRETT.
E. ROGERS.
2
D. MCKENZIE.
10
3
D. O'KIEFFE.
11
27
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4
J. MCMICHAEL.
12
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19
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J. MILLS.
13
1
15
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J. HOOD.
14
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F. ALLEN.
15
J. SMITH.
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11
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7
51
52
8
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Police Insp. W. ROBERTSON,
A. C. LANGLEY.
P. O'DONNELL.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
FRANCIS W. CLARK,
Medical Officer of Health.