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RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION (Contd.)
The scale approved "by the Town Council is 2/6d. per servicing
visit which includes labour, transport, traps, poisons and "baits.
Special terms are quoted for cases requiring long-term treatment.
No charge is made for inspections and advisory visits.
No progress could "be made with the treatment of sewers, as it
was found impossible to obtain labour for such work.
CIVIL AMBULANCE.
With the winding up of the Civil Defence Organisation, the
Corporation decided to place the civil ambulance under my control,
and I took over this duty on 1st July, 1945.
The vehicle in use is a 1934, 18 h.p. Talbot and one of the
ex-civil defence ambulances has been acquired as a relief vehicle.
The personnel consists of 2 drivers and 2 attendants working
24 hour shifts. The St.John Ambulance Brigade arranges for one
of its members to be in attendance each evening to assist the
permanent staff, a service which is very much appreciated.
During the six months to 31st December, 1945, 181 accident and
273 private cases were dealt with.
BUILDING LICENCES.
During the year 225 applications for building licences were
dealt with in my Department.
CONCLUSION.
This year saw the victorious termination of the wars in Europe
and Asia, and the beginning of a return to peacetime activities.
During the Summer, the staff was engaged for several months on
the Scheme for bringing home the evacuees.
Towards the end of the year some of the personnel of the
Department who had been away in the Services began to come back,
but I was unfortunately absent on sick leave for several months.
I feel that the foregoing report giving details of work carried
out during a rather exacting year, indicates that the Department has
coped successfully with the manifold duties it was called upon to
perform, and I am confident that when the staff is again built up
to full strength, it will be competent to neet all demands made in
the difficult days which lie ahead.
I should like to take this opportunity of expressing thanks not
only to my own staff but to my colleagues ir all DepartmentS for th ir
help and co-c eration.
I am, ladies and gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
GEOFFREY McCLELLA D.
Chief Sanitary Inspector.
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