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Midwives Act.
There are two Midwives living in the District.
Isolation Hospitals.
The District under an arrangement with the Southgate
District Council, has six beds for the treatment of
Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Enteric Fever.
Fifty-one cases have been removed to Hospital
during the year.
Provision is made for Small-pox, the District
having made arrangements with the Middlesex Joint
Small-pox Hospital Board for beds at Clare Hall.
Infectious Diseases and the Means taken to
Prevent Their Spread.
On receipt of information respecting an infectious
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
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.