London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Chigwell 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chigwell]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

RODENT CONTROL
PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949.

Table: Yearly figures since the passing of the Act were:-

Yearly figures since the passing of the Act were:-

19561,08019522,011
19551,54819511,924
19541,30819502,020
19531,38819491,833

Text

Copy text to clipboard

It will therefore be seen that the 1956 figure of 1,080 was
the lowest, and there has undoubtedly been an increase in the notifications
received from the general public. Warfarin is now almost
solely used and the results obtained are excellent.

Table: Treatment of the Council's soil and surface water sewers was done as usual with the following results:-

Treatment of the Council's soil and surface water sewers was done as usual with the following results:-

March, 1958October, 1958
Manholes baited221210
Poison part-takes218
Poison complete takes13Nil

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Specially blended oily Warfarin was used for both treatments.
It would appear from the October, 1958 figures, that the rat
population of the sewers is decreasing.
-17-