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Total amount of poison bait taken 13 lbs.
Proportion of bait taken 93 %
Streets covered:
Kew Green area: Clarence Road: Elizabeth Cottages: Lawn
Crescent: Alexandra Road: Sandycombe Road: Raleigh Road:
St. George's Road: Trinity Road: Lower Mortlake Road:
Avalon Terrace: Pagoda Avenue: Selwyn Avenue: Kew Foot
Road: Old Palace Lane: Riverside area: Petersham Road:
Vineyard: Lancaster Park: Ellerker Gardens: Sheen Road:
Sheen Park : Worple Way and Princes Road areas.
13-3-44 to 17-3-44.
41 manholes (prebaited on 2 days and poisoned on 3rd day).
Total amount of prebait used (sausage rusk) 42 lbs.
Total amount of poison bait laid (zinc phosphide
and rusk) 14 lbs.
Total amount of poison bait taken 12 lbs.
Proportion of bait taken 89.07%
Streets covered:
Albert Road and side streets: Houblon Road: Grena Road:
Richmond Hill: Cardigan Road: Onslow Road: Marlborough
Road: Petersham: Ham Street: Lock Road: Orchard Road
area: North Road: Burlington Avenue: Defoe Avenue and
Bush wood Road.
The results obtained can be considered as satisfactory, and these
operations should be extended in future to all the worst portions of
the infested main-sewerage systems.
Rats cause considerable loss of food. They carry disease, and do
other damage such as injuring building structures and equipment—
as when they gnaw through electric insulation and lead water
pipes. Money spent on their extermination (under skilled supervision)
is well expended.
The conservation of health and food supplies, and the prevention
of damage to habitable premises and public buildings are of primary
importance.