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Nuisance from Pigeons.—The member of the disinfecting staff whose
duties are concerned largely with rat repression and investigation of
complaints of nuisances caused by pigeons, visited some 12 sets of premises
on complaint and advised owners or occupiers as to measures necessary
to prevent pigeons roosting or nesting on or about their property.
On being satisfied that congregations of pigeons without owners were
causing nuisance in various parts of the City, the Council arranged for
a reduction in their number totalling 600 throughout the year.
London County Council (General Powers) Act. 1928, Sec. 28—Removal
of Infirm and Diseased Persons to Suitable Institutions.
Ten cases of elderly persons living alone and unable to devote to themselves
proper care and attention came to the notice of the Department
during the year, but in none was it found necessary to invoke the
compulsory powers contained in this Act.
Disinfection.—Disinfection of rooms from which patients suffering from
notifiable infectious disease have been removed is carried out by means
of the formaldehyde spray. For non-notifiable infectious and other
conditions disinfection is carried out on request, and a charge is made
according to the circumstances of the case.
Bedding and wearing apparel are removed to the disinfecting
station for treatment by steam disinfection. Books are treated with
formalin.
The cleansing of persons and disinfection of their clothing, etc.,
are carried out by the disinfecting staff. Visits were paid to 171 houses,
and 9,789 articles of clothing, bedding, etc., were removed for
disinfection. Individuals, numbering 560 men, 55 women, and 14
children (under school age), were given medicated baths at the
disinfecting station, making 723 attendances.
Under an agreement with the London County Council, some schoo1
children from the boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Fulham, Holborn,
Kensington, Lambeth, Paddington, St. Pancras, St. Marylebone, and
Southwark attended for treatment at the disinfecting station.
Among Westminster school children 399 cases of head lice, and 27 of
scabies were treated. In all these cases, the clothing was disinfected,
together with the bedding from their homes, amounting in all to 1,230
articles. Children from the above-mentioned boroughs treated for similar