The Hackney Borough Disinfection Station was one of a kind.
Steam-cleaning a batch of clothes from infected patients.
for free where a person had a notifiable disease.
Vehicles and staff engaged in disinfectation in 1935 near the rear entrance to the disinfecting chamber.
Items such as furniture that were beyond cleaning were incinerated on site.
At the same time, teams from the station visited the homes and sprayed formaldehyde disinfectant all around them.
Despite the busyness of the facility, the shelter house was seldom used.
The incinerators were used to burn infected food stuff.
The station was also used to disinfect library books, because books were thought to be vectors of diseases.
The station was last used in 1984 to disinfect head lice from school children.
Hackney Disinfecting Station today.
