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Health education
During the year the food inspectors during the course of their
routine inspections of foodshops took the opportunities offered to put
over items of health education to the occupiers, and on occasion to the
food handlers. A large number of posters were obtained from central
agencies in connection with health education generally and more particularly
perhaps with environmental hygiene and home safety.
The quarterly Bulletin on home safety continued to be distributed
to some 500 recipients in the borough. In the course of the year
four lectures or talks were delivered by the Health Department staff,
two of these to members of a women's club, one to older schoolboys,
and one to an old people's club.
Public Mortuary and Coroner's Court
The premises are situated in Ladywell Road and comprise a court
room, witness room, coroner's office, caretaker's apartments and mortuary.

Rodent control
A section, consisting from May to September of a foreman and
three operatives and from October to April of the foreman and five
operatives, is maintained for the purpose of repressing rat infestation,
and this section is supervised by the senior public health inspector.
In his report on rodent control work during 1962, Mr. Phillips,
the senior public health inspector, states:—"Houses in multi-occupation
still figure fairly high in the list of complaints of mouse infestation,
and, again, reasonable control was obtained by the use of warfarin although
in one or two food shops the baiting had to be extended over
a considerable period before a complete clearance was effected.