Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 23.
RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION, ACT, 1919.
Summary showing investigations and inspections made during the year 1930.
WARD.
or
DISTRICT.
Inspections.
Re-inspections.
Premises
where Rats
were found.
Action taken.
Probable Source.
Notioes.
By Council's Official.
By Occupiers.
By
Inspectors
By Rat
Officer.
By
Inspectors
By llat
Officer.
Baits laid
by Rat
Officer
with poison
Wire
Traps
Set.
Breakback
Traps
Set.
Cats or .
Dogs.
Ferrets.
Rat Runs
and Holes.
Defective
Drains.
Defective
Sewers.
St. Mary
38
50
47
523
28
3645
135
643
-
-
15
10
-
4
St. Paul
37
47
12
441
15
1587
46
353
5
-
14
6
-
-
St. Peter
21
22
16
164
18
524
57
110
1
-
12
7
-
-
St. John
41
23
41
290
23
1030
38
235
1
-
5
4
-
1
Trinity
26
36
98
589
28
2124
47
506
2
-
22
4
-
8
All Saints'
19
25
57
940
18
3656
132
1070
3
-
11
4
2
2
St. Michael
42
55
12
176
12
1026
18
117
4
-
12
14
-
1
St. Jude
29
39
109
276
23
1050
30
194
3
-
20
8
-
14
St. George
22
40
37
203
15
690
59
174
4
-
10
9
1
-
Christchurch
16
21
10
122
9
628
54
102
2
-
8
1
-
-
St. Saviour
10
7
6
82
8
1041
7
314
3
—
7
2
—
3
Total
301
365
445
3806
197
17001
623
3818
28
—
136
69
3
33
Number of Eats destroyed 996