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The supply to the whole district is considered adequate. One cottage only
is known not to "be connected to mains water supply, and action to secure its
demolition was in train at the end of the year.
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 a Sewage Disposal works of 56 acres, where it is screened, grit removed in
detritus tanks, thence to primary settlement tanks and thereafter distributed over
three 80 ft. diameter "bacteria filters, followed by humus removal in rectangular
tanks before discharge to the Dollis Brook. Pumping is necessary for three
sewers which have their outlets at a low point on the works. 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.
With respect to the Barnet works, these have been overloaded for some years
owing to the growth of the town, and will become redundant when the proposed East
Middlesex trunk sewage scheme is brought to fruition.
Complaints of smell from the farm have increased during recent years, as a
consequence of which a trial was made of equipment designed to spray a deodorising
fluid. This is barely out of the experimental stage, but results were promising
and the Middlesex County Council have approved the installation of the system for
use next year as may be necessary.
SANITARY CONDITIONS AND WATER SUPPLY OF SCHOOLS.
There are in the district fourteen schools administered by the South Herts
Divisional Education Committee, viz:-
Queen Elizabeth's Boys' Grammar School, Queens Road, Barnet.
Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Grammar School, High Street, Barnet.
Ravenscroft Secondary School;, Barnet Lane, N.20.
Elizabeth Allen Voluntary Secondary School, Wood Street, Barnet.
(with annexe at Byng Road, Barnet.)
Whitings Hill Junior Mixed and Infants' School, Whitings Road. Barnet.
Foulds Junior Mixed and Infants' School, Byng Road, Barnet.
Christ Church Junior Mixed School, Alston Road, Barnet.
Christ Church Infants' School, Alston Road, Barnet.
Grasvenor Infants' School, Grasvenor Avenue, Barnet.
Underhill Junior Mixed School, Mays Lane, Barnet.
Underbill Infants' School, Mays Lane, Barnet.