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METHOD OF DISINFECTION—ROOMS, ETC.
Rooms are sprayed with Formalin, and also fumigated with
Formalin gas or sulphur. Owners or occupiers are also required
to strip and cleanse rooms in all cases where patients have been
isolated at home, or w here otherwise necessary.
Bedding and other articles that cannot be properly washed and
boiled are disinfected in a Washington-Lyons steam disinfecting
apparatus. This apparatus stands at the Council's sewage farm.
Two vans are used, one for conveying the infected articles from
houses to disinfecting station, and the other for returning them.
VACCINATION.
I have received the following information from Mr. Inns, the
Vaccination Officer, in respect of children vaccinated during the
year:—
Number of cases on lists „ 1,368
Vaccinated 620
Exempted 471
Carried forward 277
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT.
Water Supply.
With the exception of Hadley and Cockfosters, which derive
their supply of water from the mains of the Barnet Gas and Water
Company, the District is almost entirely supplied by the Metropolitan
Water Board. There are, however, some private wells still
in use.
In the early part of 1913 the New Reservoir of the Metropolitan
Water Board between Ponders End and Enfield Lock in
this District, is to be inaugurated by His Majesty the King. It is
the largest reservoir in the country, its area being 416 acres, with
a capacity ol 300,000,000 gallons, and it is two miles long. There
are live pumps, four of which are capable of lifting forty million
gallons of water a day, and the other twenty million gallons.
Streams and Water Courses.
Turkey Street Brook and other streams in the district are kept
under observation by the Sanitary Staff, but no sources of contamination
were detected.
Sewerage.
All the houses in the urban part of the district, including
Hadley Wood and Cockfosters, are connected with the Council's