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Removal to an Isolation Hospital is offered, and
when accepted, is carried out subject to beds being
available.
After recovery or removal of an infectious case disinfection
of the room or rooms occupied is performed by
means of formalin. Cleansing and stripping notices are
served when necessary.
Clothes, bedding, etc., are removed to Finchley,
where they are put through the Defries 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.
Medical men have availed themselves of this serym,
both for acute cases and as a preventive.
On the receipt of notification of Infectious Disease
among pupils of the Elementary Schools, a form giving
full particulars of contacts is sent to the Chief Medical
Inspector of Schools for the County, and copies of this
form are also sent to the School Teacher, and the Attendance
Officer, with a view to their exclusion.
Common Lodging Houses.
There are not any.
Moveable Dwellings.
No caravans have encamped in the district.
Canals.
There are none in the District.
Meat and Food Inspections.
The Sanitary Inspector has continued to give this
matter attention, and the butchers' shops and general
food vendors' premises are under periodical inspection.
The meat sold in the district is chiefly derived from
the Meat Markets of London.