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WATER SUPPLY,
The water for the district is supplied by the Barnet District Gas and water
Company and the Colne Valley Rater Company.
With regard to the Barnet District Gas and Yater Company, all the water is
chlorinated, and a pathological staff is maintained. The water, in bulk, is
examined daily and each pumping station once a week. 1,554 examinations of the
water were made during the year, i.e. 216 Chemical and 1,338 Bacteriological.
Of the Bacteriological samples, 1,185 were representative of supply and the
percentage of first class (i.e. B. Coli absent in 100 millilitres,) was 98.9.
The Colne Valley Water Company exercises constant supervision and members of
the staff arc or duty day and night throughout, the year examining samples. All
the water supplied by this Company is chlorinated.
DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The Town is drained and sewered on the separate system, excepting the older
portions of the district where it is a combined system.
The sewage is conveyed to an Irrigation Farm of 56 acres, but before it is
turned on the land is 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. A few outlying properties are
drained to cesspools, and part of Totteridge to the Finchley Borough Sewers.
There arc- only a few earth closets in remote parts of the district.
SANITARY CONDITION 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
School, (Infants); St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Mixed School; and Underhill
County Council School, (Junior Mixed Department and Infants Department,)
The Assistant School Medical Officer visits each School at least once each
term, She is in constant touch with the teachers, and all doubtful cases of Illness
are at once referred to her. Infectious cases nd contacts are excluded from
the Schools and disinfections are carried out when necessary.