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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 where 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 up to June
1913:—
Number of cases on lists 656
Vaccinated 221
Exempted 248
Carried forward 187
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 the year the new Reservoir of the Metropolitan
Water Board between Ponders End and Enfield Lock in
this District, was inaugurated by His Majesty the King. It is the
largest reservoir in the country, its area being 418 acres, with a
capacity of 300,000,000 gallons, and it is two miles long. There
are five 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, are connected with the Council's foul and surfacewater
sewers, the former of which all discharge at the Sewage Farm
at Ponders End.