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District Council, has six beds for the treatment ot Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever.
Provision has also this year been made for Smallpox.
The District having made arrangements with the Middlesex
Joint Smallpox Hospital Board.
Infectious Diseases And Tub Means taken To
Prevent Their Spread.
On receipt of information respecting infections case
the premises are visited, a printed list of instructions as to
necessary precautions is given and explained, disinfectants
are supplied, and the schools attended, in the case of
children, and their employers in the case of adults, notified.
Removal to an Isolation Hospital is offered, and when
accepted is carried out, subject to beds being obtained.
After recovery or removal ot an infectious case, disinfection
of the room or rooms occupied is performed by
means of sulphur and formalin. Cleansing and stripping
notices are served where necessary.
Clothes, bedding, &c., are removed to Finchley, where
they are put through the steam disinfector.
Diagnosis outfits and antitoxin are supplied free to
medical men for use in cases occurring in the District, and
the suspected specimens are examined and reported upon
at the expense of the Council.
Supplies of antitoxin are kept at the Council Chambers
in the Central Ward, and at the residence of the Medical
officer of Health in the North Ward and at that of the
Sanitary Inspector in the South Ward.
Medical men have availed themselues of this serum,
both for acute cases and as a preventive.
Housing.
The house accommodation still meets the demand.
Overcrowding.
A few cases were dealt with under the nuisance
clauses of the Public Health Act 1875.