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Middlesex County Hospital, which is situate in Edmonton. Arrangements
for the treatment of tonsils and adenoids have been made With the Prince of
Wales's Hospital, Tottenham. The children are received into the Hospital
for a period of two days, while the operation is being performed.
Nursing Homes Registration Act.
One maternity and two nursing homes are registered by the Authority,
the Edmonton Council, and are kept under supervision by the Medical Officer
of Health.
No new application to be placed on the Register was received during
1936.
Section C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
The information re water supply, rivers and streams has been given in
previous Reports.
The refuse and salvage incineration plant has been completed and put
into operation during the year and, as the result, large quantities of refuse
which were dumped on the old sewage farm are now being disposed of in the
new Works. There still remains, however, a tremendous amount of dumping
in the gravel pits in Montagu Road, and the destruction of some of the waste
material is causing a good deal of nuisance from time to time, but one can
never hope for anything less from dumping.
The extension of the Sewage Disposal Works has had to a certain
extent a setback on account of the inability of the old sewers in the NorthEastern
area of the District proving insufficient for the flow of sewage
consequent on the heavy rainfall during the year.
The Open-air Bath is now being fully appreciated by large numbers of
the juvenile population, and the facilities offered for swimming and sunbathing
are being eagerly sought. It is to be regretted that the swimming
baths in Knight's Lane are closed for swimming purposes during the winter
months. If one of the Baths was kept open I am sure it would prove
popular.
For some years to come the sewerage of Edmonton will present a
grievous and expensive problem, due to the age and construction of the
sewers on the one hand, and the increase in sewage, consequent on the
increase in population, on the other.
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