42 ATKINSON. 



10. The disinfecting operations are to be done in the manner and order 

 laid down in the attached directions : 



DISINFECTION" OP INFECTED PEEMISES. 



This is carried out by a European officer assisted by eight colored fore- 

 men, a Chinese foreman, and a varying number of coolies. As soon as 

 it is known that a case of the disease has occurred at any house, a Chinese 

 constable is sent from the nearest police station to detain all persons found 

 therein (By-law 32, Ordinance 15 of 1894), and the officer in charge 

 of the disinfection proceeds to the house to ascertain how many persons 

 are detained there. He then procures, either from the matshed at Praya 

 East or from the disinfecting station, as many suits of government cloth- 

 ing as are needed for the persons so detained, and having thus provided 

 these persons with clothing, he removes their own clothing, bedding, cur- 

 tains and carpets to the steam disinfecting station, the clothing being 

 tied up in sheets dipped in a solution of Jeyes's fluid and conveyed through 

 the streets in baskets ; persons who are able to obtain new or clean clothing 

 from some uninfected premises are, however, not detained after they have 

 discarded their infected clothing and have handed it to the inspector for 

 disinfection. New goods, silk clothing which has not been recently worn, 

 furs and leather goods are not removed to the steam disinfector, but must 

 as a general rule remain on the premises until they have been fumigated. 

 When the clothing, etc., is returned (in the course of some two hours) 

 from the disinfecting station, the persons who have been detained are 

 required to put on their own clothing and must then leave the premises 

 for some five or six hours while the dwelling is disinfected and cleansed. 

 The government clothing is returned to the disinfecting station to be 

 steamed before it is again used. The people so displaced from their 

 homes are at liberty to make use of the board's matshed shelters until the 

 processes of disinfection of the premises are complete. 



The disinfection of the premises consists in the spraying of the walls 

 with a solution of bichloride of mercury (1 in 1,000) or fumigation with 

 free chlorine obtained by the addition of diluted sulphuric acid to chlori- 

 nated lime (1 quart of a 1 to 8 solution of the acid to each pound of 

 the chlorinated lime). Floors and furniture are scrubbed with a solu- 

 tion of Jeyes's fluid and the walls are then lime-washed, chlorinated lime 

 being added to the lime wash in the proportion of one-half pound to the 

 gallon. 



PLAGUE MEASURES, 1906-7. 



There are at present four plague inspectors for the city of Victoria, 

 and one for Kowloon. There are eleven colored foreman interpreters, 

 one for each district of the city of Victoria and one for Kowloon, who 

 supervise the work of the rat catchers, assist in the house-to-house clean- 

 ing, and act as interpreters to the inspectors where necessary. There 



