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has resulted in a great drop in the prevalence of these pests. We have
revised our ideas in dealing with rats and mice, aind instead of employing
a rat catcher with dog and ferrets a technique of poison baiting is
used. Improvement grants are helping considerably to bring older
houses up to modern standards, and there is still much scope in this
direction. More recently clean food laws have been tightened up, and
standards in the preparation and handling of food made stricter. Lastly,
there has been the Clean Air Act and its application to London in the
making of smoke control orders, which I hope will be completed in the
next ten years or so. There is of course more to be done in the future,
and indeed, for the public health inspector, there must be maintenance
of these improved standards already attained."