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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barnet 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet UDC]
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Antitoxin is provided free to all practitioners in the
District.
The Council have also made arrangements to examine
and report, through the Clinical Research Association, on all
suspected cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever.
The Equifex Steam Disinfector is available for all
hospital and private patients' bedding.
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
There are six schools in the district, viz.:—Arkley C.E.
Infants' School; Barnet C.E., with Boys', Girls' and Infants'
Departments; Barnet C.C. School, with Boys' and Girls'
Departments; Christ Church School, with Boys', Girls' and
Infants' Departments ; Hadley Infants' School; Moxon St.
Infants' School.
The following schools have been closed on account of outbreaks of Infectious Disease:—
| School. | Period of Closure. | Nature of Disease. |
|---|---|---|
| Byng Road C.C. Schools | 2 weeks | Scarlet Fever |
| Christ Church Boys', Girls' and Infants' | 2 weeks | Scarlet Fever |
| Arkley Infants' | 3 weeks | Measles |
| Christ Church Infants' | 2 weeks | Measles |
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS.
The extension of compulsory notification to all cases of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis should prove a very valuable means
of controlling the spread of the disease, and of obtaining
reliable data as to its prevalence, duration and course.
Appliances are provided for the use of any poor person
affected, and leaflets of instruction and advice given.
Twenty-nine notifications have been received under the
provisions of the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908, of which number 22 were from the Medical Officer of
the Poor Law Infirmary and 7 from the Poor Law District
Officer.
In 5 instances the same patient was notified twice. It
is difficult to see how this repeated notification can be avoided,
as a patient may be discharged from an Institution one week
and return the next.
Therefore instead of 29 cases, as at first appears, the
true number of cases is 24.
The following gives particulars with regard to the cases.