RATS AT CITY ABATTOIR
Sir,—There has been much word painting recently about the City Council’s powerful poison for destroying rats in city buildings. Is the City Abattoir a council property? If so, one would suggest it begins there before the residents of Sockburn are overwhelmed with a rat-borne plague. I beleive that under the Health Act occupiers of business premises are subject to heavy fines for having premises in such a condition as to be likely to harbour rats. The Departments of Health and Agriculture should also get busy and clean up this pestilence.— Yours, etc., . HEALTH AND HYGIENE. April 18. 1946. [This letter was referred to the Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast), who replied that premises of this kind necessarily attracted rats, but all possible measures were taken to exterminate them, including shooting, the use of dogs and poison. The City Abattoir premises, he said, compared more than favourably with other premises of this kind.]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 5
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