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They pleaded guilty and were fined £5 with £5 13s. costs.
(2) Public Health Act, 1936 (Sec. 41).
F.U.D.C. Act, 1908 (Sec 14).
A firm of builders were prosecuted for failure to give notice with
regard to the altering of the course of an underground drain and
causing certain sanitary fittings to be connected to the surface water
drains instead of the soil drains.
The defendants were fined £1 1.0 with £1 1.0 costs with regard
to the first offence, and with regard to the second and third summonses,
which related to the passing of sewage into the surface water
sewer, and of surface water into the sewage sewer, respectively, the
Company was given an absolute discharge, subject to the payment of
£2 2. 0 costs on each summons.
RODENT CONTROL
No financial assistance is now received from the Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food in respect of this service, and in consequence
it is no longer desirable to prepare this report for the period
of the financial year. In view of this, the period under review is
for the calendar year as is the case with all other subjects upon which
the Report is made. Allowance should be made for the fact that
figures quoted for comparative purposes arc in respect of 9 months
from the 1st April, 1959 to the 31st December, 1959.

During recent years, improved poisons have been discovered and
new techniques have been established which are contributing to some
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