Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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The Staff who joined at Brixham worked continuously throughout
the night on the passage up-Channel and all notifications to Medical Officers of
Health were prepared and got off by post by the afternoon mail#
The Marseilles address list was similarly disposed of and the whole
operation completed by 4 p.m.
RATS DESTROYED DURING 1951, TABLE E.
(l) ON VESSELS.
Number of | Jan | Feb | Mch | Apl | May | Jne | Jly | Aug | Sep | Dot | Nov | Dec | Total in year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Rats | 243 | 193 | 221 | 666 | 209 | 132 | 166 | 190 | 99 | 259 | 227 | 123 | 2,728 |
Brown Rats | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Species not recorded | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Rats examined | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Rats infected with plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - |
TABLE Fe (2) IN DOCKS, QUAYS, WHARVES AND WAREHOUSES.
Number of | Jan | Feb | Mch | Apl | May | Jne | Jly | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total in year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Rats | 248 | 183 | 261 | 302 | 297 | 250 | 240 | 321 | 323 | 332 | 257 | 206 | 3,220 |
Brown Rats | 291 | 176 | 216 | 303 | 517 | 548 | 230 | 393 | 242 | 339 | 270 | 337 | 3,862 |
Species not recorded | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Rats examined | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Rats infected with plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - |
TABLE G.
MEASURES OF RAT DESTRUCTION IN PLAGUE "INFECTED" OR "SUSPECTED" VESSELS OR VESSELS FROM PLAGUE INFECTED PORTS ARRIVING IN THE
PORT DURING THE YEAR.
Total No. of such vessels arriving | No.of such vessels fumigated by SO2. | No. of rats killed | No.of such vessels fumigated By HCN. | No .of rats killed | No. of such vessels on which trapping ,poisoning etc., was employed | No.of rats killed | No.of such vessels on which measures of rat destruction were not carried out. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2,025 | - | - | 98 | 1,952 (423 Mice) | 362 | 143 (73 Mice | 1,663 |
TABLE II.
EERATISATI0N CERTIFICATES AND DERATISATION EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES
ISSUED DURING THE YEAR.,
No, of ships | Number of Deratisation Certificates issued | No. of Deratisa-tion Exemption Certificates issued. | Total Certificates issued. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
After Fumigation with | After trapping Poisoning etc. | Total | ||||||
HCN | SO2 | 1080 | ||||||
Ships up to 300 tons | 160 | - | - | - | - | - | 160 | 160 |
" from 301 to 1,000 tons | 190 | 6 | - | 1 | - | 7 | 183 | 190 |
" " 1,001 to 5,000' " | 176 | 25 | - | - | - | 25 | 151 | 176 |
" " 3,001 to 10,000 " | 417 | 75 | • | - | - | 75 | 342 | 417 |
" over 10,000 tons | 57 | 7 | - | - | - | 7 | 50 | 57 |
Totals | 1,000 | 113 | - | 1 | - | 114 | 886 | 1,000 |
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