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Enfield 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Orthopaedic, London and 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, Tottenham; and All Saints', Southwark, Cheyne,
St. Mary's and University College, 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 137
Diphtheria 132
Erysipelas 10
Typhoid and Paratyphoid 1
Cerebro—Spinal Fever 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1
Puerperal Fever 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 2
Dysentery 1
WATER SUPPLY.
The District of Enfield is supplied with water by the Metropolitan
Water Board, except for part of the Hadley Wood and Cockfosters
area, which is supplied by the Barnet District Gas and Water Company.
Copies of analyses have been received from both these Authorities,
and an assurance that the water is regularly tested.
In addition to this, however, there have been discovered in
Enfield 99 wells. Of these 58 are used exclusively for agricultural