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During this calendar year only one maintenance treatment was carried out and
this immediately following the test bait.
Fifty-five manholes were poisoned which is a slight increase on last year's
treatment. The Second maintenance could not be carried out as planned owing to
inclement weather, but was arranged within the financial year which ends after
the period covered by this report.
No charge is made for the use of the Rodent Operator's services in treating
private domestic premises, provided that the occupiers co-operate in carrying out
their duties under the Act.
The cost of treatments at all other premises is recoverable.
OTHER INFESTATIONS.
Members of the public seem more concerned with infestations than previously
and advice was given in respect of eighteen infestations of a wide variety of
insects, e.g. woodworm, carpet beetles, larder beetles, ants, lice, cockroaches
etc.
Small quantities of liquid or powder insecticides are distributed and only in
rare cases do the department carry out the necessary work. This we did in
eradicating fifty-four wasps' nests using Cyanide or a power sprayer with liquid
insecticide.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951.
This Act gives the local Authority, inter alia, power to grant licences to
persons to keep pet shops for the sale of pet animals and to attach to the licences
conditions concerning the cleanliness and general management of the premises:
there are four persons licensed in the district. No complaints were received nor
were any major contraventions of the conditions observed during visits of
inspection.
RAG FLOCK ACT. 1951.
This Act which came into force on the 1st November, 1951, creates controls
over the use of filling materials in the making of upholstery. There are no
premises liable to registration within the district.