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measures (a) for the destruction of all rats in the district;
and (b) for preventing the entrance of rats into buildings
and other premises in the district.
Article III.—For the purposes of these regulations
the Local Authority may appoint such additional officers
or servants as they may deem necessary and may delegate
to such officers or servants any powers under these regulations.
Article IV.—The expenses incurred by a Local
Authority in the execution of these regulations shall be
defrayed in the case of a Local Authority which is a
Sanitary Authority for the execution of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, as part of their expenses in the
execution of that Act, and in the case of any other Local
Authority as part of their general expenses in the execution
of the Public Health Acts.
The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board
prepared a Memorandum on Plague, and recommended precautions
against rats, the most important of which are as
follows :—
1st. Persistently and systematically destroy all rats.
2nd. Remove and obliterate their nests, burrows and
habitual haunts.
3rd. Make each dwelling as far as practicable rat-proof,
and remove all known harbourage for rats in or near
dwellings.
4th. At the same time do not allow waste of food (whether
for human beings, chickens or other animals) to
accumulate in or about the house.