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the mains, the exception being the one at Botany Hay, where there
is no public water main at present, although the Council are negotiating
with the Metropolitan Water Board with a view to having
a supply installed; and the Education Committee are erecting a new
school there.
The action taken in relation to the health of the scholars, and
for preventing the spread of infectious disease, is as follows :—
If more than one case of infectious disease occurs in a class
that room is sprayed with Formalin and thoroughly cleaned afterwards.
Cases notified are at once reported to the Head Teacher of the
department affected, all contacts are excluded, and the patient is
not allowed to return to school until I have quite satisfied myself
that he is free from infection.
FOOD.
Milk.
There are some 487 cows in Enfield, owned by 20 cowkeepers,
and I am pleased to be able to make a favourable report this year
of the way in which the dairy business is conducted. The improvement
previously noted has been maintained, more especially in the
retail milk shops, but I could wish some of the dairy farmers
would appreciate still more the benefit of cleanliness.
I was particularly pleased to find an up-to-date Pasteurizing
and Cooling Plant installed in one dairy. The plant comprises a
boiler for supply of steam steam turbine separator; improved
Danish Pasteurizer in which the milk is heated whilst in
motion to 160 degs., and immediately cooled down to 45 degs., thus
rendering it free from acid-forming or other injurious bacteria. An
electrically driven refrigerating machine, by which the temperature
of the milk can be reduced to 40 degrees or less, completes the
installation of a plant which is unique in Enfield, and which I trust
will be copied by many milk retailers in the near future.
The cows are inspected bi-annually by Mr. H. H. Hide,
M.R.C.Y.S., the Veterinary Surgeon appointed by the Council, and
I append copies of his two reports for the year, which are very
satisfactory, and tend to shew that the Enfield dairy-farmer is fully
alive to the danger of keeping tuberculous cows on his premises.
30th April, 1912.—"I beg to report that during March and
"April I inspected the whole of the milch cows. I made a careful
"examination of each udder, and found the usual percentage
"affected with Mammitis and the resulting induration. I took
"samples of the milk for bacteriological examination where neces"sary,
and in one case I found the animal to be affected with
"Tuberculosis of the udder. This I reported at the time to the