SECOND-HAND CLOTHES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1918, Page 2

SECOND-HAND CLOTHES.

SALES RESTRICTED.

Tlia allegation was made by Mr J. Vigor Brown in Parliament on Monday that bedding from homes where pneumonia patients had died was being sold in Wellington and Auckland auction rooms- The Minister of Public Health promised to go into the 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 be 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 tlie satisfaction of the sanitary inspector. 3. That all sales toy auction or public sales of used bedding or clothing be prohibited, unless certified as having passed through a public disinfecting chamber. 4. Purchasers of clothing and bedding by second-hand dealers to be prohibited unless certified as fumigated5. All bank notes received fry the banks to be disinfected before re-issue. C. All libraries to disinfect books on receipt. Cheap and effective methods of fumigation are to Be 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 be given to the sanitary inspectors' department in the administration of the instructions.

"In these instructions, which are aimed at the suppression of tlie epidemic," said the Minister. "T confidently look for the assistance of all local bodies interested."