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Scarlet Fever.—There were 261 cases of this disease notified,'
an increase of 64 cases over the previous year, but considerably
below the average for the past 10 years.
The attack rate was 3.06 per 1,000 of the population, and the
average attack rate for the 6 previous years was 3.82.
As compared with the previous year there was an increased
number of cases notified in
Highgate ... 36 as against 23 in 1904
Muswell Hill 27 „ 13 „
Crouch End 14 „ 8 „
West Hornsey 86 „ 59 „
East Hornsey 35 „ 22 „
South Haringey 15 „ 11 ,,
Stroud Green 23 „ 19 „
In the two remaining Wards there were fewer cases notified
in 1905, viz. : —
North Haringey 14 as against 17 in 1904
Finsbury Park 11 „ 25 „
Diphtheria.—The number of cases of Diphtheria notified
was 52 greater than in the previour year.
The attack rate per 1,000 of the population was 1.79, that for
the previous year being 1.19, and the average attack rate for the
years 1894-1904 being 1.50.
There were fewer cases notified in Finsbury Park, North
Haringey, and Highgate Wards as compared with the previous
year, but a larger number in each of the other Wards.
School infection played an important part in the causation of
the disease.
Enteric Fever.—Twenty cases were notified, as against 16
in the previous year. The number is well below the yearly average
number of cases.
Three of the cases were imported cases, the patients having
been infected outside the Borough. In four cases the source of
the disease was traced to direct infection from previous cases; in
three cases there is some evidence that the consumption of shell
fish was the cause, and in the remaining cases the cause of the
disease is not known.