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Summary of work performed during the Year:
Number of treatments given 3215
Number of separate premises where treatment
was given 1071
Number of dead rodents picked up during or after
treatment:—
Rats 1365
Mice 56
Estimated number of rats destroyed 12285
Estimated number of mice destroyed 672
Total number of visits made by operators:—
(a) Treatment 3670
(b) Advice 288
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LABORATORY SERVICE.
The arrangements made with the Central Public Health
Laboratory at Colindale continued to operate in a highly
satisfactory manner, and during the year the following
investigations were carried out:—
Record of Examinations.
Throat/ Mis-
Nose Faeces. Sputum. Pertussis. Milk lee Cream Water, eellan- Total.
Swabs. eous.
716 505 81 78 175 48 — 134 1737
This service is proving of the utmost value not only to the
Public Health Department but to the general practitioners in