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HOME OFFICE.

PREVENTION OF ANTHRAX
AMONG INDUSTRIAL WORKERS.

MEMORANDUM
ON THE

DISINFECTING STATION ESTABLISHED IN GHEAT
BEITAIN FOE DISINFECTION OF WOOL AND HAIE.

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February, 1921.

LONDON.

DISINFECTION OF WOOL IN GREAT
BRITAIN.
(Prevention of Anthrax.)
INTEODÜCTION.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Introduction

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...

Site for the Disinfecting Station

Plan and General Arrangement of the Disinfecting Station

Warehouse and Disinfection Plant

Grease Recocery and other Subsidiary Plant

Power Equipment

The Process of Disinfection

Schedule of Plant and Equipment

Cost of the Disinfecting Station

Welfare Arrangements...

Capacity of the Disinfecting Station ...

Working Cost of Disinfection ...

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Labour and Materials required

Appendix.—The Anthrax Prevention Act, 1919

The occurrence of cases of anthrax among workers in wool and
hair and in other industries has long engaged the attention of
the Home Office.
Eegulations have from time to time been
introduced and enforced in factories, warehouses, etc., for protection of operatives, but the number of cases has steadily risen,
though the earlier reporting and diagnosis secured, together with
improved treatment, have prevented a proportionate rise in the
fatality of the disease. In these circumstances the Home Office
decided to appoint a Departmental Committee to enquire into the
whole question of anthrax in industries using wool and hair.
The Committee after careful consideration came to the conclusion that precautionary measures are insufficient and that
complete protection can only be afforded bv disinfection of the
raw material before it enters the factories. They, therefore,
made an extensive experimental investigation as to the possibility
of disinfection of wool on a commercial scale without injury to
the material and succeeded in devising a process which meets
all the requirements. They presented their report* in 1918 and
recommended that attempts to prevent danger of infection from
anthrax in wool by regulation of' factory processes should be
abandoned in favour of compulsory disinfection of the raw
material. They also recommended the immediate establishment
of a small trial disinfecting station in Great Britain the purpose
of which was to enable a decision to be come to as to the type
of station and equipment most suitable for the object in view.
The Government decided to adopt these recommendations. A
scheme for the establishment and equipment of the Trial Station
was prepared by a Committee on which the industries were
represented, and the station has now been erected and will commence operations in the spring of this year.
Parliament has
already passed legislation t giving the Secretary of State the
necessary powers for the compulsory disinfection on arrival in
this country of any material likely to'be infected with anthrax.
_ * Eeport of the Departmental Committee appointed to enquire as to precautions to be taken for prevention of danger from anthrax in the manipulation of
wool, goat hair and camel hair.
Volume I.—Eeport of the Disinfection Sub-Committee. (Od. 9057 ) 1918
Price Is.
Volume IL—Report of the Committee. (Cd. 9171.) 1918. Price 6d,
Volume III.—Summary of Evidence and Appendices. (Cd. 9172.) 1918.
Price Is. 6d. '
Published by H.M. Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, London
t The Anthrax Prevention Act of 1919. (9 & 10 Geo. 5.)
(31661-1) Wt. 304W-O 538/615 3590 3/21 H.St. G. 1

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THE PKOCESS OF DISINFECTION.
The process of disinfection is fully described in Volume I of
the report of the Committee referred to above. The expérimental
investigation demonstrated that disinfection of material m bales
or even in fleeces is usually impossible, and always unreliable,
except by methods which cause severe damage to the material
It was also shown that anthrax spores in animal products oi
commerce are so well protected by nature as to make disinfection
untrustworthy whatever the method adopted, unless measures are
taken to remove the protection.
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The principle of the process of disinfection worked out is first
to place the possibly infected material under conditions m which
not only is the natural protection of the anthrax spores removed,
but the spores themselves also become susceptible to the destructive effect of certain disinfectants. The matenaL then passes
into the second or disinfecting stage of the treatment m which
the organisms are destroyed with comparative ease.
The investigation showed that exposure to alkaline solutions at
a temperature of 102oF. (390C.) removes the protection of the
spores satisfactorily and renders them susceptible to the
action of disinfectants, the susceptibility increasing, withm limits,
with the time occupied by this part of the process, the minimum
period required to ensure reliable disinfection being about twenty
minutes. With a preliminary treatment of this length amexposure of twenty minutes to the action of a 2^ per cent solution
of formaldehvde followed by drying m a current of hot air was
found to be 'sufficient to ensure destruction of all organisms m
the material.
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In the practical application of this process it is proposed to
use modified wool scouring and wool carbonising machinery so
arranged that no intermediate handling of material is required.
In the preliminarv treatment the material is submitted to ¿he
action of an alkaline solution of soap, maintained at a temperature
of 102° F ^39° C), for 30 minutes in three stages of 10 minutes
each ; and in the disinfecting treatment to the action of a 2-2*
per cent, solution of formaldehyde, also maintained at a temperature of 102° F. (39° C), for 20 minutes m two stages oí iU
minutes each. It is then dried, cooled, and rebaled.
SITE FOE THE TEIAL DISINFECTING STATION.
The process of disinfection, therefore, includes a preliminary
treatment and a disinfecting treatment both of which are wet.
Though not actually a wool-washing process the preliminary
treatment is of such a character as to enable the material to
be washed clean without much additional expense and it is pro
posed to utilise it for this purpose, so that disinfected material
will be freed from all dirt and foreign matters. A sripply ot
water suitable for washing wool is, therefore^ one of the firs,
considerations in the selection of a site for a disinfecting station

The bulk of infected wool and hair arrives in Great Britain
at the ports of Liverpool and London, most of it coming to the
former, where the organisation for handling it is highly
developed. The water supply at Liverpool is also very suitable
for washing wool, and it was decided to establish the Trial
Station there on land adjoining the existing woo] warehouses
of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board who have agreed to
co-operate in introducing disinfection with minimum disturbance
of trade. Certain classes of material will be selected for disinfection during the trial period and these will, under the Anthrax
Prevention Act, 1919, be prohibited from entering Great Britain
at any port other than Liverpool.* With the co-operation of the
Board of Customs they will on arrival be taken charge of on the
quays and removed to the disinfecting station (the Government
Wool Disinfecting Station, Love Lane, Liverpool, England).
PLAN AND GENEEAL AEEANGEMENT OF THE TEIAL
DISINFECTING STATION.
Provision is made in the station for :—
(1) Warehousing the material on arrival, as imports are
irregular both as to time and quantities.
(2) Disinfection.
(3) Ee-baling.
(4) Eecovery of grease from the soapy effluent.
The process of disinfection requires that the liquids in both the
preliminary and disinfection treatments must be kept at a temperature of about 100° to 110° F. (380-430 C.) and hot air is
required for drying material after* disinfection. The steam
required for these purposes is about 3,800 lbs. per hour, while
that consumed for power and processes for which live steam
must be used is approximately 4,400 lbs. per hour. It is, therefore, proposed to drive the disinfecting station by means of electricity generated in the station by a steam-electric generating
plant and to use the exhaust steam from the engines for heating
the liquids in the disinfecting machines and the air for drying
materials, &c.
The trial station and its equipment have been designed with
a view to avoid, as far as possible, actual handling of the
materials, and its general arrangement is shown by the accompanying plan prepared by the Director of Works of H.M. Office
of Works, who are building the station. The site is about 340 ft.
long and 65 ft. wide- The main building extends the whole
length of the site, is about 30 ft. wide and has two storeys over
the greater part of its length and three storeys over the remainder.
The remaining part of the site, 30 ft. in width, is used for an
extension of the warehouse, an open yard, and the boiler house
* It has been decided to commence with the disinfection of East Indian Goat
Hair and Egyptian Wool and Hair.

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witk a üoor above it for lavatory and mess-room accommodation.
On the ground floor of the main building are placed :—
(1) Offices.
(2) The engine and electricity generating room.
Í3) Boilers.
(4) Baling press mechanism.
(5) Grease recovery room.
(6) The wool warehouse.
The whole of the first floor of the main building is occupied
by the disinfecting and re-baling machinery with storage space
sufficient to accommodate about three days' production of disinfected material. The disinfecting machinery occupies that part
of the building not covered by the third storey. This is necessary
in order to secure good roof ventilation since small escapes of thedisinfectant used, viz., formaldehyde, must be expecte'd. The
third storey over the remaining part of the building, about 90 ft.
in length, is used for storage bins, for part of the re-baling plant
and for laboratories. The building has been so constructed as to
permit of the- extension of the first floor over the one storey
extension of the warehouse and the yard.
The machinery and equipment provided in the station can be
divided into :—
(1) Plant for warehouse handling, disinfection and re-baling ;
(2) Grease recovery and other subsidiary plant ; and
(3) Power plant,

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WAEEHOUSE AND DISINFECTION PLANT.
Infected materials to be disinfected in the trial stage are imported in bales, usually press packed, of loose material {i.e., not;
in fleeces), and cases of anthrax have occurred in handling and
opening them in warehouses. In order to reduce this possibility
to a minimum, materials before disinfection will, in the Trial
Station, be dealt with as far as possible mechanically.
Bales will be taken from the lorries by means of a selflanding hoist, weighed and placed in their proper lots,
on small movable platforms, holding four to eight bales,.
which will be conveyed by means of elevating trucks to their
assigned position in the warehouse.
When the material is
required for disinfection the platforms are similarly moved below
a radial self-landing hoist, installed on the floor above, and the
bales raised to a fixed platform in the disinfecting machine room.
The bales are, by means of the radial hoist, placed as required
on the travelling platform of a specially devised automatic feeding
machine and the iron hoops and bale covering removed. The
wool or hair is then automatically fed, without further handling,
into the disinfecting machines, the feeding mechanism being
enclosed and provided with an exhaust fan in order to prevent
dissemination of dust. The dust removed by the fan is conveyed to the boiler furnaces into which it is delivered by a device
automatically controlled in such a way as to divert the air into the

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base of the chimney stack should the furnace doors be opened or
the boiler dampers be closed.
The disinfection process requires that the material shall be
in contact with the liquids for certain definite periods both in
the preliminary and disinfecting parts of the treatment. The
plant used consists of five baths or bowls each 33 ft. long and
4 ft. wide and each fitted with squeezing rollers and mechanism
of the harrow type for causing the material to pass through the
liquids, the speed of working being so adjusted as to permit it
to remain for ten minutes in each bath.
The first three baths are used for the preliminary treatment
and incidentally for washing the material. They consist of wool
washing machinery specially built and adapted for disinfection and
contain a slightly alkaline solution of soap and water, that in the
third bath being comparatively weak. In order to avoid
delays for removing dirty liquor and recharging they are each
fitted with an automatic self-cleaning device by means of which
the sludge collecting in each bath is removed at short intervals
without stopping the machinery.
Mechanism is also provided
for automatically adding solutions of soap and alkali in order
to maintain approximately constant strength. The liquid in each
ba.th is heated by the direct admission of exhaust steam from the
engines.
The last two of the five baths are used for disinfection and
consist of carbonising machinery, specially built and adapted for
this purpose. They contain a 2-2J per cent, solution of formaldehyde, which is an irrespirable and valuable gas. Tn order to
prevent its escape the two baths, including the mechanism, are
entirely enclosed by air-tight glazed covers or hoods. When it is
necessary to empty the baths or purify the disinfecting solution
the latter is run by gravity into storage tanks from which it can be
pumped back to the machines, connecting pipes being so arranged
that all displaced air passes from the tanks to the machines and
vice versa.
The strength of the solution must be maintained by the addition
of strong formaldehyde at intervals. In order to do this the
machines are provided with a measuring device connected by pipes
to a blowing egg arranged in connection with a storage tank containing undiluted formaldehyde solution. When the requisite
quantity of formaldehyde solution has been measured the
shutting off of the supply automatically permits discharge
of the compressed air from the blowing egg into the hood
of the disinfecting machinery and the flow of more strong
formaldehyde solution into the egg. The solution in the disinfecting baths is heated by means of exhaust steam passing from
the steam engine through coils arranged on the bottom of the
bath below a false floor along which the material travels.
The material passes from the disinfecting machines into an
ordinary wool drying machine (specially arranged to prevent the
escape into the room of air conveying formaldehyde vapour) in
which the material is dried in a current of hot air. The air
for drying is heated by passage through a Eoyles' Heater, the

first ten sections of this being heated by means of exhaust steam
and the remaining six sections by live steam at 160 lbs. pressure.
The temperature of the air is raised to 220° F., but the method
of drying is such that the wool never reaches a temperature
higher than 160° F. and the time required for its passage through
the drying machine is 15-20 minutes. Prom the drying machine
it is automatically conveyed into a cooling machine in which it
is cooled in a current of cold air in order to enable it to be re-baled
immediately.
On issuing from the cooling machine the wool falls into the
hopper of a pneumatic conveying plant by means of which
it is conveyed into reserve boxes, on the second floor, which
serve the baling press. The reserve boxes collect the charge of
wool for, have the same capacity as, and are placed immediately
over, the press filling boxes on the floor below, the arrangement
being such that wool can be discharged from the former directly
into the latter. During actual baling of wool in the filling box,
material is collecting in the reserve box ready for discharge into
the filling box, so that baling is made continuous. In order to
avoid the necessity of stopping the disinfecting machinery in case
it is not possible for any reason to proceed at once with the baling
of disinfected material, special bins are provided into which the
material can be diverted and stored temporarily. The bales produced weigh about 300 lbs. and are given exactly the same marks
as the original bales.
The material is thus manipulated by machinery from the time
the untreated bales are opened until re-baling has been completed.
The different sections of the disinfecting plant are arranged in a
continuous line. Each unit of disinfecting plant requires, with
gangways, a space 270 feet long and 15 feet wide, and has an
output of about 1,000 lbs. of clean material per hour. At present
only one unit has been provided but provision is made in the building for the installation of a second unit as soon as this may 'Be
required, the baling press, power installation, and grease recovery
plant being of sufficient capacity to permit of this without further
increase in these departments.

GEEASE EECOVEEY AND OTHEE SUB8IDIAEY PLANT.
In order to recover the grease contained in the soapy effluent
from the first process machines the thin sludge removed automatically at short intervals is first run through a machine which
removes such wool fibre as may be present.
The liquid then
passes into a tank on the floor below in which the greater part
of the sand is separated. The liquid from this flows into tanks
in which it is acidified with sulphuric acid, thus causing separation
of the grease which settles out on standing. The ^icid water is
removed from the tanks by means of decanting pipes and the
grease sludge transferred to cylinders where it is raised to a
temperature of 212° F. and then forced by air, obtained under
pressure from ah air compressor, into a steam heated filter press.

Oil and water flow from the press into a tank, in which they are
separated, and the oil is subsequently purified by boiling with
dilute sulphuric acid.
Machinery is provided for sterilising, washing, and drying overalls, worn by the workmen, and bale coverings taken from the
original bales.
Provision of apparatus for purification of the
formaldehyde solution for re-use is also contemplated.
POWEE EQUIPMENT.
Steam is generated at a working pressure of 160 lbs. by means
of two 30 ft. by 8 ft. Lancashire boilers fitted with mechanical
stoking arrangements and with coal elevators feeding coal from
bunkers into the furnaces, and with such subsidiary plant as super
heater, économiser, boiler feed pumps, etc.
Live steam is used only for driving the generating plant, heating
the filter-press, and, in conjunction with exhaust steam, for heating
the air of the drying machine.
The whole of the other plant in the station is driven by electricity. The power required is estimated to be as follows, maximum
requirements being stated : —
"Disinfecting machinerv (one unit including aatoma.tic feed)
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30 H.P.
Drying and cooling machinery
...
...
... 30 ,,
Mechanism for conveying wool to the baling press 15 ,,
Baling Press
...
...
...
...
... 10 ,,
Grease Eecovery Plant
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...
...
...
6 ,,
Lighting
10 ,,
Miscellaneous requirements .
...
...
... 15 ,,
Total

115

The installation of an additional disinfecting machine unit would
require a further 60 H.P. making the maximum requirements of
the station 175 H.P.
Two high speed steam electric generators of 180 K.W. capacity
generating direct current at 230 volts are installed, one being
used as a stand-by. Exhaust steam is taken from the engines
at about 15 to 20 lbs. pressure and used for the purposes mentioned
above. An additional stand-by supply of electricity for lighting
and, when the generators are standing, for driving such machinery
as the warehouse self-landing hoist, etc., is taken from an outside
source at high tension and converted by means of a motor converter to the same voltage, etc., as the station current.
The following is a complete list of the plant installed in the
station and of its cost. Some of it has been obtained from the
breaking up of munition factories at less cost than that of new

plant. In estimating the cost of a new plant, therefore, allowance
must be made for this.

Equipment.

SCHEDULE OE PLANT AND EQUIPMENT.
Equipment.

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Grease Recovery Plant :—

2 Lancashire boilers, each 30 ft. by 8 ft. 3 ins. ; working
pressure, 160 lbs.
Boiler setting ...
2 Coal elevators and mechanical stokers
2 Boiler feed pumps
Economiser (96 tubes)
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Superheaters ...
Water tanks, &c
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Steam and exhaust mains and valves
2 steam electric generators (200 and 180 KW.)
Feed water heater
...
...
Electric power mains
Motor generator for auxiliary electricity supply

£
1,320

Electric lighting
Air compressor and receiver
Fire protection
Belting
Shafting and pulleys ...
Formaldehyde purification plant
Formaldehyde storage tank and blowing egg
Water .storage tank ...
Heating
Hot water service
Laboratory, office, and workshop equipment
General and working stores ...
Miscellaneous materials
Laundry plant for overalls, bale covers, &c.
Steam pipes, water pipes and traps

Raw Wool Warehouse :—
300
150
100
150
100
500

Total cost of Warehouse plant

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Total cost of Wool Baling and Delivery plant
Carried forward

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...
...

6,680
£36,889

Preliminary Work, Sub-Structures, etc.:—

4,736
2,772
3,083
1,058
650
800

Clearing site, trial holes, and excavation
generally
_*I\oads and formation
t Eeinfcreed concrete raft

£
8,200
5,530
8,900

Superstructure, etc. :—
14,299

Wool Baling and Delivery Plant :—
Pneumatic conveyer for blowing wool to baling press
Baling press reserve boxes and wool bins
Baling press and motor
Elevating trucks and 50 platforms
Hani hoist for taking bales out of press
Weighing machine (self-recording type)
Self-landing hoist

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COST OE THE TEIAL DISINEECTING- STATION.
The trial station is being built by H.M. Office of Works. The
contract cost of building after adding an amount estimated to be
sufficient to meet the increased cost of labour is as follows :—

1,200

Total cost of Disinfecting plant ...

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500
350
150
350
500
480
150
150
300
250
600
1,100
800
300
700

Total Cost of Equipment

Disinfecting Plant :—

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Total Cost of Miscellaneous Equipment, &c.

1,300

Automatic bale opening and feeding machine, with fan
and ducts to boiler furnace.
Disinfecting machine—
3 bath first process and drain
2 bath disinfecting process
Drying machine and heaters
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Cooling machine
Plant for automatic supply of soap and alkali solutions
4 electric motors

1,670

Miscellaneous Equipment and Services :—

1,520

Self-landing crane for incoming material
Weighing machine (automatic recording type) ...
Transveyors (elevating trucks)
150 platforms (stillages) for use with elevating trucks ...
Bale piling machine
Self-landing radial hoist to machine room

£
28,539

150
100
420
200
600
200

Total cost of Grease Recovery plant

1,000
1,000
150
500
200
100
600
3,000
50
250
360

Total cost of Power plant

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Fibre Recovery Screen
Acid storage and measuring tanks, &c.
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Acidifying tanks with motor and agitating mechanism ...
Sludge boilin g cylinders and blowing eggs, &o
Filter press
Q-rease settling and grease boiling tanks
...

Cost.

Power Plant :—

Cost.

500
150
3,200
150
20
150
250

22,630

Constructional steelwork
General Builders' work, including structural fittings, laboratory fittings, etc.
Drains
Surveyors' fees, Clerk of Works, etc.
.;.

10,093
31,512
965
800
48,370

Total building cost
4,420
28,539

£66,000

* Half the cost of this item will be recoverable when the estate, of which the
site of the disinfecting station forms part, is further developed.
f The provision of a concrete raft was necessary solely on account of the
unstable character of the site.

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Adding the cost of equipment (£36,889) and making allowance
for the recovery of part of the cost"of construction of roads, the
total cost of the trial disinfecting station amounts to approximately
£100,000. It will be noticed however that the cost has been considerably increased by the difficulties caused by the special
character of the site.

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LABOUE AND MATEEIALS EEQUIEED FOE THE
WOEKINO OF THE DISINFECTING STATION AND
ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF DISINFECTION IN
THE TEIAL PEEIOD.
Annual Output—4,0.00,000 lbs. o£
material.

WELFAEB AEEANGEMENTS.
In order to guard as far as possible against the possibility of
infection overalls are provided for all workmen and these will be
washed and sterilised in the station. A cubicle containing separate
accommodation for overalls and ordinary clothing and a hot and
cold water shower bath is also provided for each workman, in
addition to ordinary hot and cold water lavatory basins in a
separate lavatory. With a view to keeping them always warm
and dry the bath cubicles and lavatory are placed on the part of the
first floor immediately over the boilers.
A mess room is also
provided.
CAPACITY OP THE TEIAE STATION.
The trial station is built to accommodate two units of disinfecting plant each having an output of approximately 1,000 lbs.
of clean disinfected material per hour. It is proposed to work
two shifts daily of 8 hours each so that the ultimate capacity of
the Station will approximate to an output of 8,000,000 lbs. of clean
wool yearly, which is equal to about 10 to 12 million pounds of raw
material. One unit only is being installed as a beginning so_ that
in the early stages the disinfecting capacity of the station will be
limited to half those amounts.
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WOEKINO COST OF DISINFECTION.

1
Total annual
charge.

LABOUR :—

Eaw Material Warehouse :—
2 Warehousemen at £4 8s. per week ...
1 Warehouse foreman at £5- lOs. per
week.

458
286

0-02748
0-01716

2,746

0-16476

676

0-04056

520

0-03120

650

0-03900

520

0-03120

520

0-03120

Machine Room :—
2
2
6
2
2

Feeders
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Driermen
...
(_ at £4 fs. per )
Baling machine men (
week.
j
Odd men
...
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Machine room foremen at £6 10s. per
week.
2 Charge hands at £5 per week

Power Plant :—
2 Head mechanics in charge of electricity
generating plant and machinery at,
£6 5s. per week.
2 Boiler men at £6 per week

Office :—
2 Clerks at £5 per week

...

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6,376

Total cost of labour, etc.

Materials :—
It is proposed that the disinfecting station shall be self-supporting, a charge being levied on the materials disinfected in order
to cover the cost. The staff required for working the station, the
materials necessary, and the estimated cost of disinfection are
shown in the following statement in which the annual charge
and the cost per pound of material treated (reckoned on the
output) are separately stated opposite each item. No reference
is made to the working of the grease recovery plant as it is
expected that that will pay for itself by the sale of the grease
recovered.

Cost per lb. outpu».

Soap, 20 tons per year, at £70 per ton
Alkali, 29 tons per year, at £6 per ton
Roller wrapping for 5 rollers
Water at lid. per 1,000 gallons
Oil and miscellaneous stores and
incidentals.
Coal (7 tons per day)
Stores for and repairs to generating
plant.
Baling materials ...
Cost of disinfectant (Provisional
estimate).
Total cost of material
Carried forward

0-38256

1,400
145
450
210
600

0-0^400
0-00870
0-02700
0-01260
0-03000

4,800
275

0-28800
0-01650

5,200

—

0-31200
0-84000

12,980

1-61880

19,356

2-00136

APPENDIX.

Annual Output—4,000,000 lbs. of
material.
[9 & 10 GBO. 5.]

Anthrax Prevention Act, 1919.

[CH.

23.]

A.D. 1919.

Cost per lb. output.
to control the importation of goods infected or likely to be
infected with Anthrax, and to provide for the disinfection of any
such goods.
[22nd July, 1919.]

AN ACT

Brought forward

...

2-00136

Overhead Costs :—
Works Manager ...
Chemist, laboratory assistant and
laboratory upkeep.
Office costs
Welfare costs
Ground rent
Rates and Insurance
Depreciation and maintenance at 10 per
cent, on machinery and plant.
Interest and Sinking Fund at 6 per
cent, on capital.

Bcj. it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:—,

0-03000
0-06000

!•—(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for preventing the importation into the United Kingdom, either absolutely or except
at any specified ports and subject to any specified conditions as to disinfection and otherwise, of goods infected, or likely to be infected, with
anthrax (in this Act referred to as " infected goods ").
(2) An Order under this section may contain a declaration that goods
of any specified class which are of any specified origin, or are exported
from or through any specified country or place, aro goods likely to be
infected with anthrax, and any such declaration shall be conclusive for
all purposes.
(3) Any Order made under this section may be revoked or varied by
any subsequent Order.
(4) An Order in Council under this Act may apply, as respects any
goods specified in the Order, any of the provisions (including penal provisions) of the Customs (Consolidation) Act, 1876, or any Act amending
or extending that Act, with respect to goods whereof the importation
is prohibited under those Acts, with such modifications as appear necessary
or expedient, and in particular with the substitution of Secretary of
State for the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, and of persons
appointed by the Secretary of State for officers of Customs and Excise.
(5) In this section the expression " specified " means specified in an
Order made under this section.

0-00600
0-01800
0-01860
0-06000
0-19800
0-36000
0-75060

Overhead Charges

2-75196
Estimated cost of disinfection per lb. of
output.

2-75196

N.B.—It is to be understood that the above statement is merely an estimate
which was prepared at a time when the cost of material and labour was at its
highest. Standard rates will be paid, but they will not necessarily be as stated
in the estimate.

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o. 36.

2.—(1) A Secretary of State may provide, maintain, and carry on. Provision as
or arrange for the provision, maintenance, or carrying on, at such ports to disinfecor other places in the United Kingdom, sts he thinks proper, the necessary ^ f in\
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works for the disinfection of infected goods, and may make rules providing
for the payment by importers of infected goods of fees in respect of
the disinfection thereof, and in respect of services rendered in connection
with such disinfection, and for the recovery of such payments.
(2)_ Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in carrying this
Act into effect, up to such an amount as the Treasury may approve,
shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
3. This Act may be cited as the Anthrax Prevention ' Act, 1919.

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