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a prospective tenant, and by arrangement the bedding is steam disinfected
at this Council's Disinfecting Station.
There were 19 cases of this kind during 1936.
It was necessary to serve 223 Intimation Notices in respect
of verminous rooms in 1936, and during the same period the Council's
staff sprayed 1,542 rooms.
Inspection of Schools
The sanitary conveniences of private schools in the Borough
were inspected during the year. It was necessary to draw the
attention of the Head Teacher to sanitary defects existing in 5 cases
which forthwith received attention.
Exclusion from School of Contacts of Infectious
Disease.
The control of infectious disease is a duty resting upon the
Borough Medical Officer of Health. In the latter part of the year
the following revised procedure was applied, with the concurrence
of the School Medical Officer, in connection with the exclusion
from school of contacts of infectious disease.
1. The names of the children who in the opinion of the Borough
Medical Officer of Health should be excluded from attendance at
school as contacts of cases of infectious disease notified under the
Public Health (London) Act, to be forwarded by him to the Head
Teacher concerned.
2. Head Teachers to be informed that only those children who
are named by the Borough Medical Officer of Health as contacts
of cases of infectious disease notified under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936, to be excluded from attendance at school.
A total of 1,285 notices relating to cases of infectious disease
were sent to the Head Teachers of both public elementary and
private schools attended by the patients or contacts of infectious
diseases.
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act.
Section 1 of the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, imposes
a duty upon the occupiers of land and buildings to take all necessary
and reasonably practicable steps to destroy rats and mice on or
in any land and to prevent such land from becoming infested.
Penalties are imposed in default.
The expression. "land" includes any buildings and any other
erection on land, and any cellar, sewer, drain or culvert in or
under land.
It is not generally realised that the responsibility for clearing
premises of rats rests with the occupier, unless it is found that the