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DISINFECTING STATION.

The Disinfecting Station buildings and staff have been under the control of Inspector H. GIDLEY throughout the year except for a period of four months dur- ing which Inspector H. GIDLEY was on leave, when Inspector S. M. GIDLEY acted in his place. The work has been carried out in a very satisfactory manner.

The Washington-Lyon apparatus which was removed from this Station to make way for a new and larger one, has been removed to a Disinfecting Station which has been built at Kowloon so that it is no longer necessary to carry infected articles across the Harbour for disinfection. The New Kowloon Disinfecting Station also serves as a District Office, a building having been erected in the compound for this purpose.

The following is a list of the number of articles passed through the Steam Disinfector during 1904 :-

Articles from private houses in Victoria,

97

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Kowloon,

Kennedy Town Hospital,....

30,829

1,085

67

19

Tung Wah Hospital,

809

""

Government Civil Hospital,...

827

Victoria Gaol,

298

Government clothing used by contacts and disinfected afterwards, 2,525 Clothing and bedding of Disinfecting Staff,

5,500

41,940

The apparatus was in use on 198 days during the year and for 12 hours daily during the prevalence of the Plague epidemic.

All articles of clothing and bedding, &c., which can be washed and ironed are thoroughly laundried before leaving the Station. The number of articles so treated since the completion of the Laundry in July last totals 4,854 pieces.

STAFF.

Assistant Medical Officers of Health ::

WILFRID W. PEARSE, M.B., D.P.H, BERTRAM W. BARNETT, M.A., M.B., D.P.H. H. MACFARLANE, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., D.P.H.

For Plague duties.

Dr. PEARSE acted as Medical Officer of Health in my absence on leave during the greater part of the year.

The following is a list of the Inspectors on the fixed establishment in this sub-department at the end of the year :-

Senior Sanitary Inspectors.

*J. A. LYON.

*A. CARTER.

*P. T. LAMBLE.

*T. P. CONOLLY.

*J. REIDIE.

First Class Inspectors.

None.

Second Class Inspectors.

W. FINCHER.

H. J. KNIGHT.

A. D. J. McKENZIE.

R. G. McEwEN.

Plague Inspectors.

*L. E. BRETT.

*F. FISHER..

*W. H. WoOLLEY.

*F. ALLEN.

*H. J. W. GIDLEY.

*S. M. GIDLEY.

R. C. WITCHELL.

T. ABLEY.

A. BROWN.

* These officers have the Inspector's Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute.