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(b) Disinfection of rooms and bedding, on request, after cases of
Non-Notifiable Disease (charge 5s.):—
Number of rooms fumigated 23
Number of articles disinfected by steam.177
Amount received in respect thereof .. £6 10s.
(3) Disinfestation:—
Eradication of Bed Bugs:—
(i) Number of premises found to be infested :
(a) Council Houses 18
(b) Church Army Housing Estat 28
(c) Other Houses 184
All these premises were disinfested.
Total number of rooms disinfested.. 438
Total number of articles disinfested 201
,, ,, ,, destroyed 2
(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 1938); any Council house found to be infested
after vacation by an outgoing tenant disinfested by the
Public Health Department before being re-occupied.
(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.
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