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Barnet 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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Infants; Christ Church School for Girls; Christ Church School for Juniors; The
Elizabeth Allen Secondary Modern School; Grasvenor Infants School; Underbill
School (Junior Mixed); Underbill School (Infants); St. Andrew's Church of England
School (Junior Mixed and Infants Departments); St. Catherine's Roman Catholic
School (Senior Girls, Junior Mixed and Infants Departments) and Whitings Hill
School (Junior Mixed and Infants Departments).
The Further Education Centre, Technical Institute, Wood Street, Barnet, is
available for Girls and Boys between the ages of 15 and 18.
All schools in the district are supplied with mains water and are connected to
the Council's main drainage system,
DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.
The house refuse is collected weekly in covered mechanical conveyances and
tken to the Council's Sewage Farm, where it is loaded into Contractor's covered
lorries and disposed of daily by controlled tipping 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 Disease Regulations, and the number of cases removed to Hospital:
| DISEASE | NOTIFIED | REMOVED TO HOSPITAL |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 31 | 14 |
| Whooping Cough | 185 | 2 |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil |
| Measles | 732 | 8 |
| Acute Pneumonia | 32 | 18 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 4 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 1 | 1 |
| " " (Non-Paralytic) | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis | Nil | Nil |
| Dysentery | 25 | 9 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil | Nil |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 50 | 50 |
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid B. | 3 | 3 |
| Food Poisoning | 3 | Nil |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 2 |
| Typhoid Fever | l | 1 |
| Tuberculosis | 23 | 10 |
| TOTALS | 1095 ______ | 124 |