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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
Sutton and Cheam 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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Prebaiting with clamped bread-rusks was carried out on two
consecutive days and the same bait base with 10 per cent
Arsenious Oxide added was laid on the third day.
The following is a tabulated summary of the results:-
SECTIONS
| A | B | C | D | E | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Manholes prebaited | 54 | Not baited. | 57 | 102 | 67 | 280 |
| Complete prebait takes | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 38 | |
| Partial prebait takes | 5 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 30 | |
| Percentage of takes (C. and P.) | 24.0 | 36.8 | 15.6 | 26.8 | 24.2 | |
| Number of manholes poison baited | 27 | 31 | 27 | 25 | 110 | |
The number of prebait takes shews a slight increase of
3.8 per cent on the previous maintenance treatment.
N. B. It was not necessary to bait Section B since there were
no prebait takes on two previous treatments.
KEY TO SECTIONS
Section "A" - Sutton - all roads south of Sutton Station
and east of Brighton Road.
Section "B" - Sutton and Cheam - All roads south of Mulgrave
Road and Upper Mulgrave Road and west
of Brighton Road.
Section "C" - Sutton - all roads east of the Railway and north
from Sutton Station.
Section "D" - Cheam - all roads between London Road/Stonecot
Hill and west of the Railway.
Section "E" - Worcester Park.
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