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Eradication of Bugs.
The number of houses found to be infested with bugs
and dealt with during 1937 was as follows:—
Council Houses 3
Other- Houses 24
The methods employed for freeing infested houses from
bed bugs are the use of insecticides combined with fumigation
with sulphur. In all cases where necessary wall and/or
ceiling paper is stripped off and mouldings, skirtings, etc.,
are eased or removed. Movable articles, e.g., bedding, etc.,
are removed and subjected to steam disinfection.
The houses occupied by persons about to remove to
Council dwellings are examined by the Housing Manager
or one of the Sanitary Inspectors and any infested articles
therein are either disinfested or destroyed.
The work of disinfestation is carried out by the Corporation's
own staff.
The houses which have been disinfested are revisited in
order to ascertain whether or not further treatment is necessary,
and the tenants are requested to co-operate with the
department by keeping their houses in a cleanly state and
reporting any reappearance of bugs.
House-to-House Inspection.
The inspections under this heading are those made in
compliance with the Housing Consolidated Regulations,
1925 and 1932. The houses inspected during the year in the
areas scheduled to be dealt with under these Regulations
were as follows:—
Ballards Lane, N.12 6
Bow Lane, N.12 2
Brownlow Road, N.3 29
Church Path, N.12 12
College Terrace, N.3 10
Coleridge Road, N.12 8
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