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Estimated number of rats destroyed 240
Estimated number of mice destroyed 344
Total number of visits made by operators:—
(a) Treatment 186
(b) Advice 19
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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894—1937:
Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas Restriction) Order,
1938:
Two outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease at Kings Cross,
London, and Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, respectively were
confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Hendon was declared an Infected Area on each outbreak for
the purpose of preventing the spreading of the disease.
Movement of animals into or within an Infected Area
was by licence only. Three licences were issued.
Swine Fever Order 1938:
An outbreak of Swine Fever was confirmed by the
Ministry. Notices defining the Infected Place were sent to
the Ministry and other persons concerned. Six pigs died
and the carcases were treated with disinfectant, slashed and
buried on the farm at a depth of 8 feet. The piggery was
disinfected.
HENDON ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
During 1946 the hospital reverted in full to its normal
peace-time function of isolating and treating cases of infectious
disease. As from 1st September, 1946, the ten beds,
which had been held for E.M.S. purposes, were released for
fevers, thereby restoring accommodation (with the exception
of the 10 bombed cubicles) to the pre-war standard.
Admissions, which totalled 812, showed an increase of
166 over the previous year's total of 646, cases admitted as
? Diphtheria being 89 as against 56 in the previous year and
those admitted as Scarlet Fever rising from 154 to 206.