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to be infested with the vermin, and the rat poisons
recommended by the Board were supplied by the
Council. No reliable estimate can be formed of
the numbers of rats destroyed, but there is evidence
that some diminution in their numbers resulted. It
is, however, clear that continuous efforts are needed
to produce really successful results, and this has been
impressed upon the occupiers of the premises, and the
Sanitary Inspectors are still, so far as their time will
allow, engaged in the work.