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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
Details of Work Carried Out under the above Act for the Year ended 31st December, 1937.
Month.
Initial
Inspections.
Number of
Buildings
found to be
Infested.
Number of
cases of
Black Rat
Infestation.
Number of
cases of
Brown Rat
Infestation.
Methods Employed to Destroy Rats.
Drainage and Sewerage
carried out during the
year.
Rat Catcher
Employed.
Poison Used.
Traps.
By City
Engineer's
Department.
By
M.O.H.
Department.
January
36
35
26
9
15
10
13
February
34
32
30
2
4
9
20
March
31
24
19
5
12
3
12
April
41
36
32
3
16
1
18
May
33
33
25
8
—
7
26
June
46
41
35
7
10
3
25
592
112
July
61
55
50
5
12
5
34
August
September
41
31
31
—
8
10
16
October
34
25
22
3
5
8
12
November
53
49
42
7
16
10
24
December
Totals
410
361
312
49
98
66
200
704