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Kensington 1924

The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1924

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Table: A Rat Officer is employed at a wage of £4 per week to assist in the work of rat destruction under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors. He has carried out good work during the year as is evidenced by the following table :—

A Rat Officer is employed at a wage of £4 per week to assist in the work of rat destruction under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors. He has carried out good work during the year as is evidenced by the following table :—

on receipt of complaint -287
Total number of visits paid -2,813
Number of Poison Baits laid during the year55,480
„ „ disappeared50,750
„ ,, removed by the Rat Officer4,730
Number of premises where concreting of basement floors has been carried out under the direction of Sanitary Inspectors to prevent ingress of rats ...53
Number of premises where other repairs have been carried out under the direction of Sanitary Inspectors to prevent the ingress of rats109
Number of sewer defects allowing egress of rats made good -9
Number of Statutory Notices served under the Rats and
Mice (Destruction) Act, 19197
Number of premises cleared of rats251

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An account of the methods adopted by the Rat Officer appears in the report for 1923.
During the National Rat Week Campaign, held in November, the Borough Engineer kindly
placed at my disposal the gang of flushers for the purpose of laying poison baits in sewers.
(J*."'tjThe baits were placed in the side entrances to the sewers, which are generally connected with
the sewers by galleries and are about ten leet distant therefrom. As the galleries fall about four
feet from the entrance level to the sewer level, it will be seen that the baits were well above the
general level of the water.
Fifteen thousand baits were laid at a number of entrances, and all disappeared.

Table: HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. DENSITY OF POPULATION IN LONDON, KENSINGTON AND THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS OF THE BOROUGH AT THE 1921 CENSUS.

HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. DENSITY OF POPULATION IN LONDON, KENSINGTON AND THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS OF THE BOROUGH AT THE 1921 CENSUS.

Area in statute acresTotal Population.Persons per acre.*Residential area in acres.Persons per Residential acre.
Persons.Males.Females.
London74,8504,484,5232,071,5792,412,9446034,883129
The Borough2,290175,85967,805108,054771,351130
N. Kensington90292,67241,25151,421103499186
S. Kensington1,38883,18726,55456,6336085297
Wards. St. Charles40124.26810,83613,43261140173
Golborne11326,32912,71813,61123372366
Norland19522,1069,92212,184113142156
Pembridge19319,9697,77512,194103145138
Holland48418,8746,08712,7873928367
Earl's Court24417,9125,99711.91573163110
Queen's Gate17313,7774,1459,63280118117
Redcliffe27J19,8656,49713,36873170117
Brompton21612,7593,8288,93159118108

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* The residential area is the total area less (1,) roads, (2) open spaces, and (3) land covered by buildings other than dwellings.