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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
Surbiton 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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The figures which follow indicate the extent of the work carried out during the year, and suggest that we are continuing to keep the rodent population to a low level.
| 1. Visits. | Private | Business | Agricultural | Corporation | Aewers | Totals | Total No. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwellings. | Premise s | Property | Property | of visits. | ||||||||
| (a) Surveys Re complaints. | 456 | 43 | - | 18 | - | 517 | ||||||
| Under Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949. | 640 | 1096 | 62 | 105 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 42 | 729 | 1246 | ||
| No access (re.complaint) | 106 | 5 | - | 1 | 112 | |||||||
| No access (re.Pests Act) | 99 | - | - | - | - | 99 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | 101 | 8 | - | 2 | 111 | 322 | 1568 | |||||
| (b) Treatments No. of visits | 4167 | 349 | - | 153 | 4669 | 4669 | ||||||
| No. of properties treated | 440 | 42 | - | 21 | ||||||||
| No. of completed treatments | 705 | 64 | - | 32 | ||||||||
| (c) Sewers | ||||||||||||
| Tenth Maintenance treatment (47 manholes pre-baited 16 manholes poison baited) | 157 | |||||||||||
| Eleventh Maintenance treatment 16 manholes pre-baited 7 manholes poison baited) | 55 | 212 | ||||||||||
| Annual Test baiting | ||||||||||||
| Treatment of sewers in conjunction with surface infestations | 23 | 23 | 235 | |||||||||
| (d) Other visits | 60 | 60 | ||||||||||
| 2. SURVEYS REVEALED. | 6532 | |||||||||||
| Premises infested with rats | 484 | 23 | - | 18 | 525 | |||||||
| Premises infested with mice | 41 | 19 | - | 4 | 64 | |||||||
| Premises not infested | 571 | 1096 | 63 | 105 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 42 | 657 | 1246 | ||
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