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To meet the convenience of medical practitioners
in this District, the Council decided to
keep a small stock of Diphtheria Antitoxin. It is
expected that practitioners who avail themselves
of this will return the same quantity of Antitoxin
as they obtain, at as early a date as possible.
Arrangements exist with the Clinical Research
Association, enabling practitioners to have
bacteriological examinations made in suspected
cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever, at the
expense of the Council.
The Water Supply is in part constant
and in part intermittent.
Brunswick Park, a portion of Hadley, the
greater part of Barnet Vale, and nearly the whole
of East Barnet have a constant supply, and arrangements
are being made for a constant service
in all parts of the District which are not more
than 270 feet above sea level. The water is
derived from deep wells sunk in the District, and
is of remarkable purity, and I believe the quantity
is now sufficient to warrant the constant supply
being given throughout.
No water is supplied from private wells.
The Milk Supply is chiefly from outside the
District, and but few cows are kept to supply
milk for home consumption. The milk shops and