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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
It was not found necessary to take any action, under the above
Regulations, with regard to tuberculous persons employed in the
milk trade.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936, SECTION 172.
No action was taken during the year under this Section.
SUPPLY OF INSULIN.
During the course of the year two children received Insulin at
the expense of the Council.
DISINFECTION OF VERMINOUS PERSONS AND THEIR
BELONGINGS.
No requests were received during the year from the Education
Committee for the disinfection and cleansing of verminous dwellings
and clothing.
ERADICATION OF BED BUGS.
(1) Number of Council houses found to be infested 22
Number of Council houses disinfested 22
Number of other houses found to be infested 65
Number of other houses disinfested 65
(2) The methods employed for freeing Infested houses from
bugs, and the name of the fumigant and/or insecticide
used.
M ethods.
During the course of the year 106 Council houses became
vacant: all of these were examined by your Sanitary Inspectors
for the presence of vermin. In 81 cases it was deemed advisable to
carry out a detection test. For this purpose the room is sealed and
a sulphur candle used. If bugs are present they tend to come out of
their hiding places and die and the fact that the house is infested
is thus established. It was found that. 22 houses out of the 106 were
infested, i.e., roughly 20 per cent of the total.
When it is remembered that last year of 216 houses so vacated
and investigated, 80 were found to be infested, i.e., a percentage of
37, it will be realised that there is a tendency for the condition of