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Rat Extermination
During 1944 a considerable amount of successful work
was undertaken in connection with the extermination of
rats, and the Scheme has proved popular, both among
business firms and the occupiers of private dwellings.
One sewer treatment was given in which approximately
3,000 rats were killed,
It would appear from the demand made by the pubic for
assistance in rat extermination that this is a service
of the Council which has come to stop and even increase.
Housing
Work under the Housing Act 1936 was suspended owing
to the War, but a number of re-housing applications were
dealt with by having such promts inspected and the
appropriate prescribed form forwarded to the London County
Council.
The number of applicants for re-housing owing to
overcrowding were lb, and because of tuberculosis in the
family - 23.

X Includes 320 Ex St.Pancras cases living and
dying out of the Borough and on which 316
Inquests were held.