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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barnet 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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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.
Poulds 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.
Underhill Infants' School, Mays Lane, Barnet.
St. Andrew's Voluntary Junior Mixed and Infants' School, Totteridge Green, N.20.
St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Infants School, Vale Drive, Barnet.
St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Junior and Secondary 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 evenings.)
In addition to the above there are five private schools, viz: –
The Anchorage Kindergarten School, 38 Normandy Avenue, Barnet.
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 hover, Woodside Park, N.12. (Nursery School)
All schools in the district are supplied with mains water and 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 table on the following page 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.
The cases normally resident outside the district notified from the Barnet General Hospital and Victoria Maternity Hospital, which are included in the table, are as follows:–
| Measles 2; Pneumonia 6; Meningococcal Infection 1; Dysentery 1; Puerperal Pyrexia 1; Food Poisoning 3. |