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Following on the comprehensive treatment of the soil sewers
in the Borough carried out in 1947 a maintenance treatment, in
accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Fisheries, Infestation Control Division was carried out during
the year.
All manholes found to be infested during the first comprehensive
treatment together with adjacent manholes to the number
of 820 were dealt with.
The result of the treatment was satisfactory as 265 manholes,
or 32-31 per cent., of those baited were found to be rat infested,
and from observations of the takes of poison baits it was evident
that the rat population would have been considerably reduced.
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE.
Apart from two important administrative modifications, the
service continued to function on the same lines as in previous
years.
The first modification consisted in the transfer of the responsibility
for medical treatment of school children from the Ealing
Education Divisional Executive to the new local Area Health
Committee set up by the County Council as part of their scheme
for implementing the provisions of the National Health Service
Act, 1946. The object of this change, which dated from July 5th,
1948, was to ensure that the treatment provided for school children
at Health Clinics should be co-ordinated with the local health
service provided under the National Health Service which came
into force on that date. All matters of routine medical inspection.