[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Aylesbury Borough.

  • Aylesbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Aylesbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Warfarin has continued to be used in most other cases with very satisfactory results. Twenty annual agreements with various firms in the town for a total sum of £217 are in operation, all the premises being visited periodically and treated as necessary. The cost of all other work done on business premises was recovered and amounted to £30 6s. 6d. A free service is given to private householders, half the cost being met by an Exchequer grant. Five wasps nests were destroyed during the year. Private Premises treated 328 Business Premises treated 190 Rat bodies found 594 Mouse bodies found 164 Points laid at Private Premises ... 826 Points laid at Business Premises ... 919 Manholes treated 52 Visits made by— Rodent Operator 519 Sanitary Inspectors 64 FACTORIES ACT, 1937. Mechanical factories on register requiring visiting 86 Non-mechanical factories on register requiring visiting 25 Visits paid to Factories 16 SHOPS ACT, 1950. Closing hours in the Borough are earlier than those allowed in the Act and no action was necessary against any shopkeeper for non-compliance of the Shops Act. PETROLEUM. Licences issued for storage of Petroleum Spirit and Mixtures 60 Licences issued for storage of Carbide of Calcium 1 Inspections of Petrol and Carbide Stores 43 Quantity licensed to be stored: — Petroleum Spirit 124.104 gallons Petroleum Mixtures 1,455 ,, Carbide of Calcium 300 lbs. Total of licence fees £46 15s. Od.
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