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Barnet 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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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 | 5 | Nil |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | Nil |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil |
| Measles | 14 | Nil |
| Acute Pneumonia | Nil | Nil |
| Meningococcal Infection | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Encephalitis | Nil | Nil |
| Dysentery | 7 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil | Nil |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 12 | 12 |
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil |
| Malaria | Nil | Nil |
| Typhoid and Enteric Fevers | Nil | Nil |
| Paratyphoid Fever | Nil | Nil |
| Food Poisoning | 13 | 3 |
| Tuberculosis | 11 | 7 |
| TOTALS | — 63 | 24 |
AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEARS OF AGE | |||||||||||||
| 0- | - 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 75- | Total | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Measles | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 7 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | - | - | - | 12 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 13 |
| TOTALS | 2 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | - | - | 52 |