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Costs recovered throughout the year: £41 3s. 7d.
Solutions of D.D.T. in Kerosene are used for dealing with infestations
by bedbugs and are usually applied in spray form to the walls,
ceilings and woodwork of the infested rooms. It is becoming a rare
occurence to give more than one course of treatment to eradicate
bedbugs.
D.D.T. powders prove very effective in dealing with ants and
cockroaches and much practical help and advice has been extended
to householders who have found their premises infested with these
pests.
PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949.
The rodent control section of the staff have done much useful
work during the year in eradicating rats and mice from premises and
foul sewers.
A total of 4,192 visits were made to Dwellings and Business
premises throughout the year.
261 Complaints of infestation by rats or mice were received from
occupiers of premises, and inspection and investigation revealed rat
infestation at 135 premises and mice infestation at 61 premises. By
the end of the year infestations had been cleared at 184 of these
premises.
Treatment of the foul sewers was carried out on two occasions,
a total of 1,483 visits being made for this purpose in connection with
inspection, baiting, poisoning and checking results.
In all 466 manholes were dealt with and of this number 129
were found to be infested and were baited and poisoned.
The takes of poison baits in the infested manholes were good
and the results obtained at both sewer treatments were very satisfactory.
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Richmond, being residential in character, has few large works
or Factories, but an increasing number of complaints has been received
alleging nuisance from smoke emission.