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Barnet 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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St. Andrew's Voluntary Junior Mixed and Infants' School, Totteridge
Green, N.20.
St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Infants School, Union Street, Barnet.
South Herts College of Further Education, Wood Street, Barnet.
(Available for girls and boys aged 15 to 18 years during the
day, and for persons over school-leaving age in the evening.)
In addition to the above, there are four private schools, viz:-
The Hill School, Totteridge Lane. N.20.
Norfolk House School, Fitzjohn Avenue, Barnet. (Nursery School)
St. Marthe's Convent School, Wood Street, Barnet.
Mrs. Blundell's School, Southover, Woodside Park, N.12. (Nursery School)
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 OVE, 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 | 13 | 3 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | Nil |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil |
| Measles | 396 | 4 |
| Acute Pneumonia | 38 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | Nil |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis | Nil | Nil |
| Dysentery | 16 | 10 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 30 | 30 |
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil |
| Malaria | Nil | Nil |
| Typhoid and Enteric Fevers | Nil | Nil |
| Paratyphoid Fever | Nil | Nil |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 4 |
| Tuberculosis | 12 | 12 |
| TOTAlS | 531 | 71 |