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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| Business premises treated | 185 |
| Dwelling houses treated | 194 |
| Local authority premises treated | 4 |
| Treatment visits | 3,247 |
| Other visits | 2,119 |
| Estimated kill (rattus norvegicus) | 73 |
| Bodies recovered (rattus norvegicus) | 26 |
| Estimated kill (rattus rattus) | 1,445 |
| Bodies recovered (rattus rattus) | 421 |
| Estimated kill (mice) | 1,485 |
| Bodies recovered (mice) | 425 |
Baiting of Sewers.
No rodent repression work in sewers was carried out during the year by the Council
owing to experiments in sewer maintenance treatments which were undertaken by the
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Infestation Control Division. The treatments have
been carried out at three-monthly intervals since October, 1951, and have consisted of
direct poison baiting using 1% by weight sodium monofluoroacetate in damp sausage rusk.
The Ministry have kindly supplied the following summary of the results obtained:—
Treatment
dates.
No. of
sites
baited.
No. of
sites at
which poison
was eaten.
% of sites
at which
poison was
eaten.
No. of
bodies
discovered.
Oct., 1951 257 105 40.86 90
Jan., 1952 278 72 25.90 56
April, 1952 272 96 35.29 62
July, 1952 268 61 23.76 63
Oct., 1952 261 54 20.69 44
Jan., 1953 249 53 21.28 53
Disinfecting Station.
| Number of rooms disinfected after tuberculosis | 16 |
| „ „ „„ „ scabies | 3 |
| „ „ „ „ „ other infectious diseases | 112 |
| Total number of rooms disinfected after infectious disease | 131 |
| Number of articles of bedding and clothing disinfected after tuberculosis | 129 |
| Number of articles of bedding and clothing disinfected after scabies | 32 |
| Number of articles of bedding and clothing disinfected after other infectious diseases | 1,715 |
| Total number of articles disinfected after infectious disease | 1,876 |
| Number of books disinfected after infectious disease | 331 |
| ,, ,, toys „ „ „ „ | 28 |