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the Friern Barnet Old People's Welfare Committee has
made a magnificent start, that steady progress is being
maintained, and that everything which seems at the
moment possible is being done to ease the many burdens
which are so often the lot of our old people to-day.
National Assistance Act 1948.
Section 47. Removal to suitable premises of persons in
need of care and attention.
No formal action was taken under this
section during the year.
Section 50. Burial or cremation of the dead.
No action was necessary under this section
during 1957.
Laboratory Facilities.
Once again, we did not have to call upon
the Laboratory to any extent during 1957, owing to the
absence of major outbreaks of infectious disease or any
other untoward happenings.
Summary of work carried out at Public Health Laboratories
for the year 1956.
Throat and nose swabs 55
Faeces 78
Sera 1
Ice cream 45
Milk 65
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