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Conveyance of drain-testing appliances 53
Visits in connection with Welfare Centres 119
Mileage
run.
Eed van 4,283
Blue van 2,361
Samples taken to laboratory for analysis:—
Milk 18
Water 2
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS.
The number of Council houses infested and disinfested
was 15.
The number of other houses infested and disinfested
was 128.
The methods employed consist of easing of the architraves,
skirtings, stripping of walls, etc., including in bad cases the opening
up of the floors of infested rooms and spraying with an
insecticidal fluid.
The beds and bedding are examined and dealt with. If badly
infested, the bedsteads are destroyed. Bedding is treated at the
Council's steam disinfector.
The belongings of tenants to be moved into Council houses
or Hornsey Housing Trust dwellings are examined, and where
considered necessary treated as previously described.
The work of disinfestation is carried out by the Local
Authority.
DOG NUISANCE.
One hundred and eighty-one metal plates are afiixed to lamp
columns in various parts of the Borough.
During the year 25 more have been fixed and 20 replaced.
PETROLEUM INSPECTOR'S REPORT.
The following is a Report of the Petroleum Inspector for
the year 1936:—