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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
Southwark 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 27.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
Summary showing investigations and inspections made during the year 1933.
| DISTRICT. | Inspections. | Re-inspections. | Premises where Rats were found. | Action taken. | Probable Source. | Notices. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By Council's Official. | By Occupiers. | |||||||||||||
| By Inspectors | By Rat Officer. | By Inspectors | By Rat Officer. | Baits laid by Rat Officer with poison | Wire Traps Set. | Breakback Traps Set. | Cats or Dogs. | Ferrets. | Rat Runs and Holes. | Defective Drains. | Defective Sewers. | |||
| No. 1 | 50 | 69 | 34 | 301 | 11 | 1122 | 22 | 166 | 1 | — | 16 | 22 | — | 9 |
| No. 2 | 23 | 41 | 23 | 272 | 3 | 1387 | 6 | 231 | 4 | — | 12 | 8 | — | 3 |
| No. 3 | 33 | 45 | 51 | 118 | 12 | 605 | 19 | 77 | 5 | — | 13 | 10 | 2 | 5 |
| No. 4 | 32 | 42 | 85 | 474 | 16 | 2377 | 23 | 449 | 5 | —- | 26 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| No. 5 | 33 | 41 | 91 | 157 | 21 | 942 | 23 | 114 | 8 | — | 19 | 11 | 3 | 9 |
| No. 6 | 17 | 23 | 76 | 387 | 7 | 1828 | 33 | 366 | 3 | — | 8 | 3 | 1 | — |
| No. 7 | 28 | 56 | 28 | 382 | 13 | 1900 | 11 | 385 | 4 | — | 20 | 22 | 2 | — |
| No. 8 | 28 | 35 | 15 | 144 | 2 | 593 | — | 88 | 1 | — | 6 | 2 | — | — |
| No. 9 | 59 | 62 | 42 | 375 | 11 | 2080 | 134 | 565 | 3 | — | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 |
| Total | 303 | 414 | 445 | 2610 | 96 | 12834 | 271 | 2441 | 34 | — | 137 | 99 | 15 | 39 |
VERMINOUS PERSONS CLEANSED DURING 1933.
During the year 6.804 persons were cleansed at the station in King
James Street. Of these, under our agreement with the London County
Council, were 4,875 children.
Many of the children treated were suffering from Scabies. In every
case the treatment at our Station was thoroughly efficacious, and no
recurrence of the trouble was experienced.
1,929 adults sent from the various common lodging houses and
other places in our borough were cleansed during the year, as against
1,705 dealt with under the provisions of the Cleansing of Persons Act,
1897, in 1932.