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59 [1931
Yards:
Paved 1
Repaved. 48
Sinks :
Provided 10
Waste pipe repaired 42
Domestic Water Supply :
Cisterns repaired and cleansed 8
Water supply provided to dwelling house 1
Water supply provided to tenement house —
Walls and Ceilings of Rooms cleansed and
redecorated 882
Other Improvements :
Staircase and passages repaired, cleansed
and redecorated 399
Floor space ventilated 11
Floors repaired 109
Guttering and rain water pipes repaired 64
Roofs repaired 202
Overcrowding abated 5
Illegal use of underground Rooms for sleeping
discontinued 3
Other Improvements, or Nuisances abated 548
Rooms Disinfected 3
Total Improvements 2743
Total Premises Improved 567
SEWER EMANATIONS.
See page 60, Medical Officer of Health's Report for 1929, and page 70,
Report for 1930. During 1931 the London County Council were still conducting
experiments.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
(9 and 10 Geo. 5. Ch. 72.)
This Act came into operation on the 1st January, 1920, to make further
provision for the destruction of rats and mice.
Sanction was given by the Public Health Committee for expenditure on
posters and rat poison. Transpariencies were exhibited in the lower basement and
upper floors of the Town Hall, where the Public Health Department has offices.
As last year, 300 large posters were ordered and these were exhibited throughout
the Borough, but in addition to public bill posting, health publicity boards
belonging to the department throughout the Borough were utilised.
On these posters attention is drawn that disease is spread by rats and mice
and that it is economical to commence their destruction before there is a large
increase in their numbers when, not only is it more difficult to eradicate them, but
also the cost of the damage done is much increased. The poster also deals with
the removal of waste matters, which prove a harbour and a feeding ground for
rats and mice, the safeguarding of food, and advises attention to ratproofing.
The public are invited to call at the Public Health Department for further information
or to write.