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spite of the fact that there are many premises built with facilities
for one family and shared by more than one, there is distinctive
evidence that our efforts in the past in the education of the public
in hygiene and cleanly habits has been successful. The cleansing
station was abolished four years ago.
Rodent Control.
On the 1st April the Council introduced a free service to
occupiers of private dwelling houses and this undoubtedly
explains the steep rise in the number of notifications received
and the consequent increase in the number of treatments as
compared with previous years.
The following statistics are of the work carried out by the
rodent operatives and the District Sanitary Inspectors, following
complaints and by routine investigations, and the figures for 1950
are shown to illustrate the effect of the free service at private
dwellings.
No. of
Total No. of Infestations
Inspections. Cleared.
1950 1951 1950 1951
Local Authority's Property 168 107 18 11
Dwelling Houses (including Council Houses) 6,881 7,394 185 436
Business Premises 317 193 35 37
In addition, the Council's sewers were test baited early in
the year to ascertain the areas of infestation and this was
followed up by treatments with poison bait in March and
September.