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Enfield 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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The following hospitals are for Non-pulmonary child cases:—
Alfred Yarrow Home, Broadstairs; Heritage Craft Schools,
Chailey; Holy Cross, Broadstairs; Holy Cross, Ramsgate;
Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples', Alton; Melton
Lodge, Great Yarmouth; Royal, Richmond; Royal
National Orthopaedic, Country Branch, Stanmore; Royal
Sea-Bathing, Margate; St. Michael's Orthopaedic,
Clacton; St. Nicholas and St. Martin's Orthopaedic,
Pyrford; St. Vincent's, Pinner; Wingfield Orthopaedic,
Oxford; Hendon Cottage; Prince of Wales's, Tottenham;
Cheyne, Chelsea, University College Hospital, London.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.—(Middlesex County Council):—
279, Fore Street, Edmonton, N.
Maternity.—(Maternity Hospital, North Middlesex County
Hospital, Edmonton).
Children, Fever, Small Pox, Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants and Homeless Children.
The position with regard to the above has not altered since my
Report for 1932, and for information in respect to these reference
thereto is advised.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The following cases of notifiable and other infectious disease
were taken to the Edmonton and Enfield Joint Isolation Hospital
from the Enfield District during the year:—
Scarlet Fever 193
Diphtheria 74
Diphtheria Carriers 11
Erysipelas 10
Paratyphoid 1
Cerebro Spinal Fever 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1
Measles 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 2
Whooping Cough 8
Other 6
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water Supply.
With the exception of Hadley Wood and Cockfosters Ward,
which derive their water from the mains of the Barnet Gas and