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DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE .
The Town is drained and sewered on the separate system.
The sewage is convejred to an Irrigation Farm of 56 acres,
but before it is turned on the land it is screened and treated
by means of detritus and sedimentation tanks, and three rotary
filters. Pumping is necessary for three sewers which have their
outlets at a low point on the farm.
There arc only a few earth closets in outlying parts of the
district.
DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.
The house refuse is collected weekly and conveyed to the
Farm and disposed of by the controlled tipping system.
SANITARY CONDITIONS AND WATER SUPPLY OF SCHOOLS.
There are eight public elementary schools in the district,
viz:- Arkley Church of England Infants School; Byng Road
County Council School (Junior Mixed and Infants and Senior
Mixed Departments); Christ Church School, with Boys, Girls and
Infants Departments; Barnet Church of England School (Senior
Mixed Department); Totteridge Church of England School, (Boys,
Girls and Infants); Grasvenor Avenue, (Infants); St. Catherine's
Roman Catholic Mixed School; and Underhill County Council School,
(Junior Mixed Department and Infants Department).
The Assistant School Medical Officer resides in the district
and visits each school at least once each term. He is in constant
touch with the teachers, and all doubtful cases of illness are at
once referred to him.
Infectious cases and contacts are excluded from the Schools
and disinfections are carried out when necessary.
The following Schools were disinfected after the recurrence
of cases of infectious disease;- Byng Road, Underhill and
Norfolk House. (Private).