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possessed by local authorities for dealing with milk containing
tubercle basilli are extremely limited and of little practical
value unless amplified by special local Acts. Several milk
clauses have been inserted in the Finchley General Powers
Bill of 1908, and these, if passed, should prove a considerable
safeguard.
Open-Air Sanatorium.
The great difficulty in obtaining admission to any of the
special hospitals and sanatoria fcr phthisical patients lead to
the proposal that public authorities in Middlesex should
combine to establish an Open-Air Sanatorium. It is now
more that three years since several Boards of Guardians and
District Councils, including Finchley, agreed to establish and
maintain beds in the event of sufficient money being subscribed
to enable the Sanatorium to be started, but the
support given to the scheme proved inadequate. Probably
some arrangement will be arrived at by which two beds in
some existing Sanatorium will be reserved for patients
belonging to this District.
School Hygiene.
Up to the present time any medical examination of
school children has been on an entirely voluntary system,
so far as the local Education Authorities were concerned,
but the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907,
has made it the duty of every local Education Authority
to provide in future for the periodical medical inspection of all
children in Public Elementary Schools.
In Finchley the work of medical inspection will be
carried out by the Medical Officer of Health, and the Council
has also decided to appoint a lady to act as School Nurse and
Health Visitor.
The custom in this District in regard to the exclusion of
children living in homes where there is non-notifiable in-