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the staff are on duty day and night throughout the year examining samples.
All the water supplied by this Company is chlorinated. The water supply
is satisfactory both from the Chemical and Bacteriological aspects.
The water supply to the whole district is considered adequate, and
all houses are supplied by these companies mains.
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 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.
Part of the Totteridge area drains to the Finchley Borough sewers; in the
outlying areas some properties are on cesspool drainage or domestic sewage
disposal plants, and a few only have pail closets.
SANITARY CONDITIONS AND WATER SUPPLY OF SCHOOLS.
There are in the district ten schools administered by the South Herts
Divisional Education Executive Committee, viz:- Queen Elizabeth's Boys and
Girls Grammar Schools; Ravenscroft Secondary School; Fould3 School
(Junior Mixed and Infants Departments); Christ Church School (Junior Boys
and Girls, and Infants Departments); The Elizabeth Allen Secondary Modern
School; Grasvenor Infants School; Underhill School (Junior Mixed and
Infants Departments); St. Andrew's Church of England School (Junior Mixed
and Infants Departments) and St. Catherine's Roman Catholic School (Junior
Mixed and Infants Departments).
In my report of last year, reference was made to the proposals which
were in hand for the replacement of the last trough closet, by individual
water closets, at the Christchurch School, Alston Road, Barnet.
During the year, as previously reported to the Council, all trough
closets in both branches of this School, i.e. in Alston Road and St.
Albans Road, have now been replaced by modern type pedestal water closets.