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JOINT ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
This Hospital is controlled by a Joint Committee of the
Barnet, East Barnet Valley Urban, and Barnet Rural
District Councils.
The accommodation is for 8 cases of scarlet fever, 4 of
diphtheria, and 4 of enteric fever.
The percentage of cases notified which have been
removed to hospital is 73 per cent., as compared with 79 per
cent. last year.
The hospital urgently requires discharge, observation,
and convalescent wards, the provision of which is now in
hand.
The proposed accommodation comprises provision for 16
extra beds, viz.:—6 for females, 6 for males, and 4 observation
beds.
A Local Government Board Inquiry has been held with
regard to the scheme, and the Hospital Authority are now
waiting for sanction to borrow the money for this purpose
before proceeding with the erection of the buildings.
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 patients' bedding.
WATER SUPPLY.
The District is supplied with water from the mains of
the Barnet Water Company. The water is derived from
deep wells sunk into the chalk, situate: 1 at East Barnet, 3
at New Barnet, 1 at Potters Bar, and 1 at Tyttenhanger,
Colney Heath.
The supply has been good during the past year, and no
complaints have been received.
I append the report of the Public Analyst upon a sample
of water taken from a domestic tap in the District:—