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APPENDIX 5.
COUNTY COUNCIL OF MIDDLESEX
(Area No. 2)
(Friern Barnet, Potters Bar, Southgate, Wood Green)
Area Health Office,
Southgate Town Hall,
Palmers Green, N.13.
1. Introductory
The purpose of this Report is to present to the Committee an
over-all picture of the work carried out in the Area during 1953.
It will be appreciated that the Report is, of necessity, brief,
and that it has only been possible to touch on the more important
aspects and statistics relating to each section of the Area work. It
will also be appreciated that, to include the work of the School
Health Service, would call for a separate document. For this reason
mainly, the matter of the School Health Service has been for the
moment deferred, although I hope to be able to present a statement
to the Committee at a later date.
It would be true to state that the work carried out by the Area
Health Staff in Area No. 2 last year was relatively uneventful.
Opportunity has been taken to improve and extendi our services
wherever possible, and to introduce newer and more up-to-date
methods. Minor changes in administration have also taken place;
the more important of these will be referred to in the body of the
Report. Altogether, the picture can, I think, be justly claimed to
be one of steady progress.
2. Area Statistics
THE YEAR, 1953
Population : 169,050
Friern Barnet 28,260
Potters Bar 17,210
Southgate 72,110
Wood Green 51,470
Area (in acres) : 12,840
Friern Barnet 1,340
Potters Bar 6,129
Southgate 3,764
Wood Green 1,607
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