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DISINF'E STATION.

Methods employed for disinfestation
Spraying with insecticide 10
(b) School Canteens.
At the request of the County Council nine school
canteens were sprayed with insecticide to prevent flies and
other insect pests, the County Council paying the cost of the
work.
(c) General.
(i) Advice is frequently sought from the Department in
the identification and measures for eradication of insect
pests of various kinds.
For the convenience of the public a stock of
insecticides and sprayers is held in the Department, and these
articles are sold at cost price when required. This service
seems to be much appreciated.
(ii) Verminous Person.
An application was received from a local resident
for cleansing from body lice.
Section 85 of the Public Health Act, 1936,
authorises a local authority to take such measures as are
necessary to free such persons and their clothing from vermin
without charge.
As no suitable facilities are available in the
Borough, arrangements were made with the Royal Borough of
Kensington for the man to be dealt with at their cleansing
station at a charge to this Council.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT. 1948.
One burial was effected in accordance with Section 50
of the Act where it appeared that no suitable arrangements for
the disposal of the body were being made otherwise than by the
Council.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
During the year sixty-eight bodies were received into
the mortuary for post-mortem examination.
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