[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.
- Nottingham (England). City Council.
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Cleansing Stations. Although a station exists at Eastcroft for the cleansing of verniinous })ersons, it is rarely required. For Scabies (Itch) it is found rather more convenient and useful to admit the patients (preferably the entire family) to the Isolation Hospital for a few days. They can be adequately treated there (when sufficient isolation accommodation is available), and in the meantime the whole of the infected bedding and clothing from the home can be collected and disinfected. Disinfection. The disinfecting staff carry out the spraying or fumigation of houses or other premises which have been exposed to acute infectious disease or tuberculosis, whenever such a course appears to be called for. Alodern ideas on the spread of acute infectious disease throw more responsibility upon the infected person than upon inanimate articles with which he has been in contact. Therefore disinfection, so-called, is less practised now than formerly, especially in the case of Scarlet Fever. It is not now usual to spray or fumigate after Scarlet Fever, except in very dirty houses. In all, some 1,060 rooms were disinfected, and 10,751 articles of bedding and clothing ; also 115 library books were subjected to such treatment as is ])ossible with such things. Outworkers. According to the lists sent into the Department the number of outworkers employed was about the same as last year. The addresses were recorded and action taken whenever necessarv on account of infectious disease occurring in the homes,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29924480_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
