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Tottenham 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Offices, Philip Lane.
External redecorations.
Additional heating.
Music and Dancing Licences.
Alterations to the structures, secondary lighting and the lighting of
W.C.'s and latrines to comply with the regulations of the Middlesex
County Council at the undermentioned schools:—
Belmont Road School. Crowland Road School,
Downhills Central School. Down Lane School.
Risley Avenue School. Woodlands Park School.
Asphalt Repairs to Playgrounds.
Attention has been given to the playgrounds of the following schools:—
Coleraine Park School, Boys'.
Seven Sisters School, Boys' and Girls'.
Furniture.
In addition to the repairs and renovations to the school furniture,
new furniture has been supplied to many of the schools, i.e., blackboards,
tables, remedial forms, needlework boxes, cupboards. Devonshire Hill
School Infants' Department has also been fitted with sliding wall
blackboards.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The details of medical inspections and the subsequent following-up
and treatment of children found to be defective are set out in tabular
form at the end of this report.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Notifications under the Infectious Disease Notification Acts, 18891899,
were received in respect of the following diseases occurring amongst
children of school age, with the noted frequency:—
Scarlet Fever 294
Diphtheria 327
Enteric Fever 5
Erysipelas 2
Pneumonia 24
Poliomyelitis 1
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 1