BEDDING AND CLOTHING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17955, 23 November 1918, Page 2

BEDDING AND CLOTHING.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST INFECTION. [From Otck CoßwesroNnEXT.] WELLINGTON, November 21. The allegation was made by Mr Vigor Urpwu i» Parliament uu Tuesday

that bedding from houses where pneumonia patients had died was-being sold in Wellington and Auckland auction rooms. The. Minister of.. Public Health promised to go into tho .matter, and has now given instructions to all Chief Health Officers as follows: - 1. To request all cities, boroughs, or town .districts to ..establish public disinfecting and fumigating chambers, the number in each centre to bo in accordance with the necessities of the case. 2. That all clothing or bedding used by patients shall be passed through the chamber, unless dealt with privately to the .satisfaction of the sanitary inspector. 3. That all sales hy auction or public sales of used, bedding or clothing he prohibited, unless certified as having passed through a public disinfecting chamber. 4. Purchases of clothing and bedding by second-hand dealers to be prohibited unless certified as fumigated. 5. All bank notes received by banks to be disinfected before re-issue." 6. All libraries to disinfect books on receipt. Cheap and effective methods of fumigation arc to bo advertised by the Department at once in regard to clothing and bedding, which can be fumigated in private houses. - Under these conditions special attention is to-be paid to hotels and boarding-houses, and discretion will. bo given to the sanitary inspectors' department in i the administration of the instructions. "In these instructions, which are aimed at the suppression of the epidemic," said the Minister to a " Lyttelton. Times " representative, "I.confidently look for tho assistance of. all local bodies interested.''