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School Hygiene.
The Medical Officer of Health carries out the
duties of School Medical Officer, this arrangement having
obvious advantages.
A School Nurse was appointed in April, 1908. In
addition to her duties in the Schools she also acts as Health
Visitor The arrangements made for exclusion of scholars
on account of infectious disease and. for obtaining early
information from the teach era and attendance officers work
admirably.
When such cases occur in a school the Medical Officer
and the School Nurse make frequent visits whenever it seems
desirable.
A full statement upon the school hygiene appears in the
annexed Report to the Education Committee.
Water Supply.
The public water supply is from the mains of the Bar-net
Water Company. The Company derive their water from
five deep wells in the chalk in the Barnet District, and in
addition obtain a certain quantity of water from the New
River.
The Company's Engineer informs me that the average
quantity of water per head per day supplied to residents in
this district for 1911 was 25 gallons. It is a constant supply
of great purity, and the Engineer states that, even during the
continued drought in the summer of 1911, the full constant
supply was given throughout the whole area served by the
Company.
On account of the unprecedented draft on the mains
and services which was occasioned by the excessive supply
demanded during the hot weather, the increased velocity of
the water possibly had the effect of detaching some of the
oxidation inside the pipes, and this, no doubt, was the cause