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Barnet 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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SANITARY CONDITIONS AND WATER SUPPLY OF SCHOOLS.
There are in the district eleven schools administered by the South Herts
Divisional Education Committee, viz:- Queen Elisabeth's Boys and Girls
Grammar Schools; Ravenscroft Secondary Modern School; Foulds School (Junior
Mixed and Infants); Christ Church School (Junior Mixed); The Elizabeth
Allen Voluntary Secondary School; Grasvenor Infants School; Underhill School
(junior Mixed); Underhill Infants School; St. Catherine's Roman Catholic
School and Whitings Hill School (Junior Mixed and Infants).
The South Herts College of Further Education, Wood Street, Barnet, is
available for Girls and Boys between the ages of 15 and 18 during the day road
for persons of all ages in the evenings.
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 taken 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 | 15 | 3 |
| Whooping Cough | 60 | 6 |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil |
| Measles | 12 | Nil |
| Acute Pneumonia | 9 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 5 | 5 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 3 | 3 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 8 | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 41 | 41 |
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 |
| Typhoid and Enteric Fevers | Nil | Nil |
| Paratyphoid Fever | Nil | Nil |
| Tick Typhus | 1 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 22 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 2 |
| Tuberculosis | 15 | 7 |
| TOTALS | 198 | 87 |