[Report 1944-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough.

St. Helens (Merseyside, England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1945

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Credit: [Report 1944-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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DISINFESTATION OF PREMISES AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS. During 1944, 11 Council houses were reported to the Housing Department to be infested with bed bugs. These were treated with liquid insecticide, viz., Zaldecide or Solution D. During 1945, 9 Council houses were dealt with. 16 instances during 1944 and 27 during 1945 of other houses infested with bed bugs also came to the notice of the Sanitary Stalf. In these instances the tenants were advised as to the best means of disinfestation, and the premises kept under observation. No houses or household effects were subjected to fumigation by hydrocyanic acid gas.