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711
Existing drains tested and found defective, and reconstructed
or under reconstruction 91
Drainage plans submitted to the Public Health Committee
and passed 47
Number of Summonses for failure to submit plans 1
Number of Summonses for failure to give notice of intention
to open drains 1
Rat Infestation.—Operation of Rats and Mice (Destruction)
Act, 1919.—The Sanitary Inspectors are the Rat Officers
appointed by the Council under the Act.
Number of complaints received of rat-infestation during
1927 48
Action taken:
House drains tested 48
Sewer connections and frontages examined and relaid 10
Notices served under Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act,
1919 Nil
Stoke Newington does not contain large grain stores, warehouses
or wharves. But there is in the Borough a considerable
amount of drainage connected with oldish property, and such
systems become, from time to time, manifestly defective, with
associated escape of rats from the sewer population. These are
dealt with by the responsible party, whether the Council or private
owner, as and when they are brought to the notice of the Public
Health or Surveyor's Department, and this replacement of old
drainage, which is continually being made, and engages much of the
time of our Inspectors, at present is in Stoke Newington the most
important measure of Rat Control that can be employed.
Experiments with Red Squill poison baits have been made in
the sewers, and advice as to poisoning is given to householders by
the Inspectors.