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with that in the District generally. During the year
222 infants under one year of age were attending the
centres and there were six deaths, giving an infant
mortality rate for the centres of 27 per thousand.
Of these deaths one was from "wasting" from birth
and hopeless from the beginning, one from CastroEnteritis
and one from septic Scarlet Fever, the two
latter dying in hospital. The Registrar-General
give the infant mortality rate for England and Wales,
as 83; Great Towns 87: Smaller Towns 84; and for
London 80.
I attach the tables and statistic a for the year, based
on the scheme set out in the tables and blank forms
formally issued by the Local Government Foard, together
with the new particulars required by the Ministry and set
out in the appendix of Circular 269.
SAHITARY ADMINIDIRATION See Table 6.
Number of Slaughterhouses - one licensed.
This slaughter house is situated in the most
closely built upon area in the District, but it is
structurally very good and maintained in first class
condition. It is about forty years old and for many
years previous to the war was un-used. It was reregistered
under the food control legislation and a
license granted contrary to the advice of the Medical
Officer of Health and Sanitary Inspector. However,
after the license was granted, the whole place was
replanned by your Sunitary Inspector and considerable
alterations carried out to obtain (1) air use accommodation
separute from the slaughter chamber, with
independant ontrance, (£) Separate exit for meat,
without passing it through lairage. (3) Blue briek
chequered paring. (4) Tiled walla 6'6" high to
slaughter chamber. (5) Improved light and ventilation.
(6) An efficient winch and tackle (7) An improved
water sunply. (8) Efficient drainage, (9) Sliding
doors between lairage and slaughter chamber.
(10) Artificial lighting by electricity. Unfortunately
there is not sufficient room to provide a separate
cooling chamber, and beef carcases have to bo
retained in the slaughter chamber until they have set.
They then guttered and removed to the various
butchers' shops, The slaughterhouse in owned by one
butcher, but satisfactory arrangements have boon made
whereby any butcher in Extern Barnet may use the
slaughter house, or any allotment holder may have his
pig properly slaughtered by skilled men in a hygienic
manner and there is no excuse for sluahgtering on
unlicensed Premises in this District. The Sanitnry
Inspector has made arrangements with the owner of the
slaughterbouse to receive notice of any slaughtering
contemplated outside the usual days of slaughtering
and in no case is beef or park meat removed from the
premises without proper inspection.