Current Trends
Urban Rat Control -- United States, Second Quarter, Fiscal Year
1982
During the second quarter of fiscal year 1982, 44 urban rat
control programs identified 825 environmentally improved blocks*
(EIB)
and achieved maintenance status in an additional 706 blocks (Table
5).**
Urban rat control programs provide a set of services--resident
education, code enforcement, improved municipal services,
neighborhood
cleanup, and supplemental rat killing--designed to eliminate the
environmental conditions that support rat infestations. During the
quarter, these services are provided to over 2 million people
living
in almost 14,000 blocks.
Since 1969, urban rat control programs have served
approximately
9.2 million people in over 61,000 blocks. As a result of program
efforts, 7.9 million people now live in environmentally improved
and
rat-free neighborhoods.
Reported by Environment Health Svcs Div, Center for Environmental
Health, CDC.
*Blocks that have limited environmental deficiencies and are
essentially rat free.
**Blocks that have remained in maintenance for at least 1 year and
no
longer require intensive rat control efforts.
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