As required by Local Law 108 of 2022, this report details rat mitigation efforts from January to June 2023 in the rat mitigation zones designated by the Department.
Can you imagine starting your day opening your cabinet at home and seeing a rat inside? You will think about that all day, if not all year. You'll never touch that cabinet again without reflecting on it. This is a quality of life issue and a health issue that we're going to tackle.
Thank you so much, deputy mayor, and the entire team, and our Council persons that are here in Harlem, where we are rolling out a $3.5 million initiative on the rat mitigation zone to add with some of the other rat mitigation zones.
Using data from HVS, ED visits among children, CHS, examines the relationship between housing quality and asthma. It describes the Healthy Homes Program aimed at reducing home health hazards for people with asthma and provides recommendations.
The Pesticide Use by New York City Agencies in 2020 report fulfills the reporting requirement of Local Law 37
of 2005 (LL37) which was amended in October, 2007 to require a summary report of pesticides used by agencies to be prepared and submitted by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Hospitalization, emergency department (ED) visit, and public school health record asthma-related data highlight trends and persistent disparities in asthma-related outcomes among children residing in the Bronx compared with other areas of NYC.