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These swimming baths are equipped with pressure filters
for continuous filtration and the water is treated with chlorine
under strict supervision.
There are two privately owned swimming pools in the Borough
which are run by the Staff Recreation Clubs of two large factories.
In both of these pools chemical treatment of the water is carried out.
Eradication of Bed Bugs.—Only 6 Council houses were found
to be bug infested during the year. In 1935 a review of the Council
houses was made with a view to ascertaining the extent of bug
infestation. Of the 1,550 houses owned by the Council evidence
of bugs was found in 23 houses or 1.5 per cent. of the total. All
these houses were successfully disinfested.
Evidence of bugs was found in 80 other houses during the
year, and all of these were disinfested.
The method employed for freeing infested Council houses
from bed bugs is by stripping the paper from the walls, loosening
or removing all woodwork, the application of blowlamps to the
seats of infestation and disinfestation with a proprietary article
having a sulphur base. In the case of privately owned houses a
notice is served on the owner or occupier to disinfest the house
and advice is given as to the methods to be used.
In all cases where there is the slightest suspicion of infestation
with bugs in the belongings of people about to remove to a Council
house disinfestation with Hydrogen Cyanide is carried out, this
work being done by a contractor. During the year the furniture
and belongings of 26 families were treated by this method.
Noise Nuisances.—Section 56 of the Middlesex County
Council Act, 1930, provides that a noise nuisance shall be liable
to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions relating to
nuisances of the Public Health Act, 1875, with the proviso that
if the noise is occasioned in the course of any trade, business or
occupation it shall be a good defence that the best practicable
means of preventing or mitigating it, having regard to the cost,
have been adopted.