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The methods employed for freeing infested Council
houses are completely to remove all picture rails, skirtings
and mouldings which are first thoroughly sprayed with
insecticide (Zaldecide). Wallpaper is stripped where loose
and a floorboard taken up in each room. The place is then
sealed up and left for 24 or 48 hours under gas (Cimex).
On opening, the walls are cleansed and any defects repaired.
Before reinstating, the woodwork is cleansed and
the back thoroughly soaked with creosote. The place is
then redecorated and the walls distempered, not papered.
The work of disintestation at Council houses is carried
out by our own staff under my supervision and not by
outside contractors. HCN has not been used. When these
houses are occupied detailed advice is given by supplying
disinfectant to cleanse bedsteads, pictures, etc.
Every house becoming vacant on the Corporation
Estates is carefully inspected before reletting. In this way
a number were found to be affected, to a varying degree
and dealt with.
Advice has also been given to a number of house
owners, and several houses have been treated by outside
contractors without notice from my department. HCN is
known to have been used in two or three cases.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS AND MILKSHOPS.
Only one cowshed is now in use in the district. This
is in a very poor condition structurally, but is not, however,
used for cows in milk.
Nearly all the milk is pasteurised before delivery to
the consumer but is not sold labelled as such.
During the year the following licences were issued
under the Milk (Special Designations) Orders:—