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The heaviest month for Finchley (July 20 cases admitted)
happened to be nearly the lightest month for Hornsey (8 cases
admitted), and Hornsey's heaviest month (September 32 cases
admitted) was a month in which the number of Finchley cases
admitted was below the average (10 cases admitted).
Cost of Maintenance of Patients and Resident Staff
at the Hospital.—This works out at 7s. 7d. per head per week,
as compared with 8s. 7¼d, for the previous year, and 8s. 2d. for
1902.
Scarlet Fever.
Number of cases notified in Hornsey 197
Number of cases removed to the Borough Hospital 133
The proportion of cases removed to the Borough Hospital was
about 67 per cent. of the cases notified.
In addition to the 133 cases removed from Hornsey, there were
111 cases of Scarlet Fever admitted to the Hospital from Finchley,
making 244 cases of Scarlet Fever admitted during the year.
There were two deaths during the year, one being a Finchley
patient and one a Hornsey patient.
Diphtheria.—There were 102 cases of Diphtheria under
treatment during the year, 59 being Hornsey patients, and 43 from
Finchley. Of these 4 patients died, 3 of the fatal cases being
Hornsey patients and one from Finchley. Of the 4 fatal cases, 3
were admitted at such a late stage of illness as to be incapable of
deriving benefit from antitoxin treatment, and, in fact, were practically
moribund.
One patient was sent in suffering from extreme laryngeal
obstruction, and tracheotomy was performed shortly after admission,
and the patient made a good recovery.
The following table gives the number of cases of Diphtheria
notified in Hornsey and the cases admitted to Hospital and the
mortality for each year since the Hospital was opened:—