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(3) Disinfestation:—
Eradication op Bed Bugs:—
(i) Number of premises found to be infested :
(a) Council Houses 10
(b) Church Army Housing Estate 18
(c) Other Houses 129
All these premises were disinfested.
Total number of rooms disinfested 373
Total number of articles disinfested 13
,, ,, ,, destroyed 3
(ii) Methods employed:
Owners of infested premises requested to strip
walls and remove woodwork from wall surfaces;
spraying with "Ris" insecticide and fumigation with
sulphur, repeated where necessary; removal of bedding,
as required, for steam disinfection.
(iii) Methods employed for ensuring that the belongings of
tenants are free from vermin before removal to Council
houses:
Premises occupied by intending tenants, together
with the contents thereof, inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors prior to removal to Council houses; a report
obtained from the Medical Officer of Health of the
district concerned in cases where the incoming tenant
resides outside the Borough (no case requiring the
disinfestation of incoming tenant's belongings occurred
during 1937); any Council house found to be infested
after vacation by an outgoing tenant disinfested by
the Public Health Department before being reoccupied.
(iv) With the exception of the stripping of walls and the
removal of woodwork, as noted above, the work of
disinfestation is carried out by the Local Authority.
Disinfection of Books.—The arrangements indicated in the
Report for 1930 regarding the disinfection of books issued through
the Middlesex County Council libraries in the district remain
unaltered. During the year, 156 books were so disinfected.
The school and other books found in homes where casee of
notifiable or non-notifiable infectious diseases have occurred are
disinfected, together with individual school books from class-rooms
from whioh a case of infectious disease has been notified.
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