[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XII. Work done by Disinfecting Staff, 1899. Houses disinfected 3.899 Rooms disinfected (stripped 564, limewashed 418) 10,376 Beds and mattresses disinfected 10,290 Articles of bed clothing disinfected 33. ns Articles of wearing apparel disinfected 56,882 Miscellaneous articles ... ... ... 18,504 Flushing.—During the 52 weeks of the year, six carts, each with two attendants, have been employed flushing, drains. In this period 47,692 house drains, 15,009 water-closets, and 34,283 outside drains, and the drains in connection with 342 schools have been flushed. In addition to this, two men have been engaged putting in an iron solution into tanks connected with the sewers, and in this manner 11,880 gallons of disinfecting solution have been allowed to trickle into certain of the sewers. TABLE XIII. Cases removed to hospital by our own staff. Classified according to diseases certified. Small¬ pox. Scarlet fever. Diph¬ theria. Typhus fever. Typhoid fever. Other diseases. Total, 1899. 2 66l 157 — 24O I I,o6l Other work of removal staff. In addition to the above work 127 persons were removed to Gildersome Convalescent Home, 129 to Manston Cottages, 380 from Manston Hospital to Beckett Street Hospital, 20 from Beckett Street to Manston, 46 to Beckett Street for disinfection, 2 to the General Infirmary, and 1 case from Meanwood Convalescent Home to own home, making a total of 705 additional removals.