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Barnet 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE,
The house refuse is collected weekly in covered mechanical conveyances and
conveyed to the Council's Sewage Farm, where it is loaded into Contractor's
covered lorries and disposed of daily by a controlled tipping system outside the
district.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The following table shews the number of Notifications to the Sanitary Authority during the year, of each disease specified in the Public Health Act, 1936, and the various Infectious Diseases Regulations, and the number of casee removed to Hospital
| DISEASE | NOTIFIED | REMOVED TO HOSPITAL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil | ||
| Cholera | Nil | Nil | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 23 | 16 | ||
| Typhus | Nil | Nil | ||
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil | Nil | ||
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | ||
| Tuberculosis | 37 | 18 | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | 3 | ||
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 2 | 2 | ||
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | 1 | ||
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | 1 | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10 | 10 | ||
| Acute Pneumonia | 2 | Nil | ||
| Enteric | Nil | Nil | ||
| Typhoid | 1 | 1 | ||
| Dysentery | 3 | 2 | ||
| Measles | 326 | 13 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 69 | 3 | ||
| TOTALS | 481 | 71 | ||