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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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2. Measures of Control by Local Authority.
| Type of Property | No. of properties inspected | No. of inspections made | Number of notices served under Section 4 | Number of treatments carried out | Block treatments of properties in different occupancies under Sect. 6 (1) or by informal arrangement | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By arrange-ment with Occupier | Under Section 5 (1) | Number of Blocks | Surface | Associated sewers | |||||||
| Number of separate occupancies | Number of manholes treated | ||||||||||
| Treatments | Works | Rats | Mice only | Rats | Mice only | ||||||
| Local Authority's Property | 2 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dwelling House | 276 | 1,655 | — | — | 264 | 107 | — | — | 7 | 32 | — |
| Business Premises | 178 | 1,133 | — | — | 115 | 33 | — | — | 14 | — | |
| Agricultural Property | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 456 | 2,795 | — | — | 380 | 141 | — | — | 7 | 46 | — |
Block Control Scheme No. 3.
This scheme, which was started in March 1949, and has yet to be completed, has
been approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The scheme covers that
part of the Borough lying East of Woburn Place and Southampton Row to Gray's Inn
Road, and North of High Holborn.
Particulars of work carried out during the year under this scheme are as follows
| Blocks surveyed | 10 |
| Blocks treated | 10 |
| Business premises treated | 11 |
| Dwelling houses treated | 46 |
| Bombed sites and derelict buildings treated | 8 |
| Treatment visits | 502 |
| Other visits | 1,087 |
| Estimated kill (rattus rattus) | 225 |
| Bodies recovered (rattus rattus) | 59 |
| Estimated kill (rattus norvegicus) | 58 |
| Bodies recovered (rattus norvegicus) | 22 |
The rate of progress achieved with this scheme was not as great as had been anticipated
owing to prolonged spells of illness suffered during the year by the Rodent Operative
engaged in this work.
Complaints.
Apart from Block Control Scheme No. 3, 292 complaints of rat or mice infestation
were received and investigated during 1950.