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DESTRUCTION OF RATS AND OTHER PESTS.
We frequently have complaints that premises are infested
with rats and we lose no time in notifying the County
Council Official whose duty it is to investigate each case, to
give full instructions and when possible to suggest remedies.
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
No action was taken under Section 66 of the Public
Health Act, 1925, for the prevention of blindness or the
treatment of persons suffering from any disease or injury
to the eyes.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
One case was notified during the year. The vision was
unimpaired.
PREVENTION OF DEAFNESS.
It has always been obvious that while much has been,
and is being, done for the blind, and rightly so, very little
is undertaken municipally for the deaf.
In May last the Ministry of Health issued a Circular
(No. 1337a) drawing the attention of Maternity and Child
Welfare Authorities and others to the need of early and
effective treatment of ear diseases and discharges, resulting
from infectious disease such as measles, scarlatina, diphtheria,
and meningitis and the particular observation and
treatment of nasal and throat defects. The resident medical
practitioners and the clinic doctors have been furnished with
the Circular.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925.
No action was taken under these regulations during the
year regarding tuberculous employees in the milk trade.
Public Health Act, 1925—Section 62.
No action was taken under this section during 1933.
Tables relating to Tuberculosis appear at the end of the
Report.
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