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ANNUAL REPORT
of
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the
DISTRICT OF FRIERN BARNET.
January 30th, 1896.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Twelfth Annual Report on the Health of
the District of Friern Barnet. The report includes an account of Infectious
Diseases, measures taken to prevent such illness; record of proceedings taken
or advised to be taken to enforce various Clauses of the Public Health Acts in
force in the District; the sanitary regulation of Factories, Workshops, and
Bakehouses; also the Bye-laws of your Council, together with statistics
relating to births, deaths, and sickness within the District. An account is
also given of the sanitary condition of the District at the end of the year, and
a record of the weather.
The London County Asylum, Colney Hatch, is treated throughout this
report as a separate locality.
The year to which my report relates has not been unimportant for matters
of sanitation generally. Considerable activity has been displayed. An
important Act of Parliament was passed during the year, and will come into
force on 1st of January, 1896. The Act is called the "Factory and Workshops
Act, 1895." It is an attempt to consolidate and simplify the law relating to
Factories and Workshops. The Act provides, among other things, that the
Sanitary Authority is to inform the Factory Inspector of proceedings taken
by the Authority in consequence of notice given by the Inspector. Laundries,
excepting where members of the same family dwelling there, or in which not
more than two persons dwelling elsewhere are employed, and excepting private
laundries, come under the operations of the Act.
It is to be regretted that at present there is no notification by a County
Council to a Sanitary Authority of action taken under the "Contagious Diseases
(Animals) Act," as well as under the "Adulteration of Foods and Drugs Act."
Your Authority should be informed as to any action taken in your District by
the Middlesex County Council under the above statutes.