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insecticide provided free of cost in order that disinfestation
shall be complete. The Council have not used the method
of fumigation by hydrogen cyanide gas.
Other houses are visited upon receipt of a complaint of
infestation and detailed advice given to the tenant and the
owner is informed. The tenant is supplied with a quantity
of insecticide free of cost.
No cases have yet been found where belongings of new
tenants to Council Houses have appeared to be infested.
Applicants premises are inspected prior to the granting of a
house. Should it be found necessarv to fumigate infested
furniture the services of a specialist firm would have to be
engaged.
The fumigation of Council houses is carried out by the
Council's own staff, but other houses are dealt with by the
tenants or landlords of the premises, either by themselves
or by a specialist finm on their behalf, and the case is not
lost sight of until the Sanitary Inspector is satisfied that no
evidence exists of bugs still being present.
Figures for 1936:—
1. Number of Council Houses:—
(a) found to be infested 19
(b) subsequently disinfested 19
2. Number of other Houses:—
(a) found to be infested 56
(b) subsequently disinfested 47
Schools.
The various elementarv and secondarv schools have been
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subjected to periodical inspection. All of the schools in this
area are provided with water supplies from the Water
Company's mains.
In addition private schools were inspected, classrooms
measured and statements of suggested maximum numbers
supplied to the Principals. The numbers supplied were based
on the Board of Education Standard for Elementary Schools.
No school was closed during 1936 by reason of the
incidence of infectious disease. Individual scholars have been
excluded from school on the occurrence of infectious disease
in the home according to the memorandum of the Middlesex
County Council.
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