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Factories Act, 1937 :
Visits paid to factories totalled 95 and in addition to verbal intimations
regarding small defects, 14 written notices were served and 13 complied with.
These dealt mainly with minor defects.
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, and Infestation Order S.R.O., 1943.
Complaints were received from various parts of the district and investigated
numbered 331. When considered necessary, the drains of premises
were tested with smoke and any defects found made good.
The foul-water sewers were treated on two occasions during May and
November/December, pre-bait and poisoned bait being laid in the manholes and
side entrances. In May, 284 manholes were baited and pre-bait takes recorded
in 133. The figures for November/December, were 277 manholes baited and
prebait takes recorded in 121. It is estimated that 1,744 rats were killed in consequence
of these treatments.
Rodent Infestation of Properties :
A full-time rodent operative commenced duty in April.
The following is a summary of the work carried out :-
Premises surveyed 3,120
Premises reported infested with rats 288
Premises treated for rats 343
Premises where rat poison bait taken 297
Premises re-treated 318
Estimated number of rats poisoned 2,391
Number of rats trapped 14
Premises treated for mice 85
It was necessary to treat some premises on several occasions and the total
treatments for the destruction of rats carried out numbered 2,080.
Shops Act, 1912 to 1938 :
Mr. E. G. Thomas, Sanitary Inspector and Shops Act Inspector, reports
as follows :-
Number of visits made 171
Number of evening patrols carried out 37
Number of Sunday patrols carried out 23
Number of shops where sanitary and washing accommodation
insufficient. Notices served under Section 10, Shops Act,
1934, and complied with 18
Number of shops where Young Persons employed 26
Number of shops where official forms relating to staff not
posted up on the premises 44
Number of “ mixed shops ” where poster relating to Sunday
trading not exhibited under Shops (Sunday Trading
Restriction) Act, 1936 5