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A fluid insecticide is given and sprayers loaned to tenants in order
to rid rooms and contents of bugs. Sixty gallons were distributed
during year.
RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION.
During the organised "Rat Weeks" a large quantity of barium
carbonate paste was distributed to applicants, the results being highly
satisfactory. Lithographic varnish traps were also used with success.
The number of complaints of the presence of rats and mice has greatly
diminished.
It must be added that every week is a " rat week'' in Poplar, and
the work of destruction proceeds, principally by the use of barium
carbonate paste which is still being distributed to tenants of houses,
where necessary, and is recommended for use in factories, etc.
Where rats are still persistent after the use of poison the ground is
opened and the drain examined as a matter of routine Accumulations
of refuse are also directed to be removed.
SCHOOLS.
Inspection of Schools.
The public elementary schools were inspected during the year. A
few minor defects were discovered and remedied.
RAG FLOCK ACT, 1911.
No samples of rag flock were procured during the year 1922.
SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK. etc.
Tabulated Lists of Sanitary Inspections, etc. Legal Proceedings,
Overcrowding. General.