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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southall 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
Infestation Order, 1943.
The date of formal delegation of the powers formerly executed by the Middlesex
County Council to this Council was the 1st April, 1944. Pending such formal delegation
this Council acted as from the 1st February, 1944, as a statutory authority.
The survey of infestations was completed by the Sanitary Inspectors in spite of
staff shortage and they continued to direct in their districts the work of the Rat Catcher,
who commenced on the 1st February, 1944. During the year this work necessarily involved
a great deal of the time of the Rat Catcher in checking the range and intensity of infestations
to secure a later economy by block treatment.
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