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Aged persons known to the Department to be living alone are
visited periodically to ensure that institutional treatment or care
is obtained if necessary. There were, at the end of the year, 9
persons on the register kept for the purpose, to whom 82 visits
were paid.
Verminous Premises.
Verminous Premises.— The procedure adopted for the
disinfestation of verminous premises was detailed in the Report
for 1934 (p. 83).
One hundred and thirty-seven notices were served last year
requiring the disinfestation of verminous premises. Below I have
indicated the number of houses dealt with :—
No. of Council houses found to be infested 27
No. of Council houses disinfested 27
No. of other houses found to be infested 137
No. of other houses disinfested 137
The belongings of tenants before removal to the Council's
flats are inspected by the Sanitary Inspectors. Bedding is treated
by steam disinfection, and other articles are sprayed with a
vermicide, and the tenants instructed as to the methods to be
adopted to rid, as far as possible, the articles from vermin. A
special pamphlet is in use for this purpose.
Tenants are encouraged to destroy all useless articles prior to
removal.
Use has not yet been made of hydrogen cyanide, the difficulty
being the absence of a suitable site for the purpose.
At the request of a private estate, arrangements were made
for the steam disinfection of bedding and similar articles belonging
to tenants removing from the Borough to new flats in Islington.
The furniture was disinfested by a company at the request of
the owner.
The belongings of 6 families were dealt with.