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66
Brought forward 386
After verminous cases 148
Vacated Council houses 110
258
644
Rooms stripped and re-papered, etc., after occupation
by cases of infectious disease 16
Ditto, ditto, by cases of Phthisis 2
Articles of clothing, bedding, etc., disinfected 1,675
Ditto, ditto, destroyed 92
Library Books disinfected 38
No. of Certificates issued re disinfection of clothing
and premises 7
Number of Schools disinfected 1
Private Patients removed to Hospital or Infirmary 3,953
Gipsy Vans removed from District 27
Articles or parcels of unsound food destroyed or
otherwise disposed of 390
110 vacated Council houses were disinfected during the year.
Of these, 29 showed signs of vermin—26 per cent. of the total.
It is a decision of the Council that before an occupier may
transfer from one Council house to another, the person wishing to
be transferred must, on inspection, be found to be occupying a house
free from vermin.
DISINFESTATION OF VERMINOUS HOUSES.
It has been the experience of the Department during the past
year in dealing with the question of verminous houses to find that
the problem is still one very difficult of solution. I am sorry to say
that we have still not yet been able to find an effective method of
dealing with bugs without some risk to either those using the
particular preparation or the occupiers of the house of adjoining
houses.
The great point still seems to be that cleanliness to the extreme
on the part of the occupier is the best solution of the matter. If we
could be certain that all furniture and effects, as well as the clothing
of the people were absolutely free from vermin when taking a Council
house we should be a long way towards a good solution of the problem.
It is, however, found that people are not too ready to
acknowledge the presence of vermin in rooms or houses occupied
by them previous to moving into a Council house. On the one hand,
it is because they consider themse ves regarded as unclean, and
secondly there is the fear that they will not be granted the tenancy
of a Council house.