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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Table G gives the incidence of infections disease in the
Borough for the last 26 years. The total number of notifications
in 1936 is well below the average. It is indeed the lowest in the
last 10 years, with the exception of one year—1932.
The cases were generally of mild type, from which recovery
is generally complete without complications.
Nearly one-third of the cases are nursed at home, a policy
which is encouraged where home conditions make isolation and
nursing safe. The majority of hospital cnses are admitted to
the Hornsey, Finchley and Wood Green Joint Isolation Hospital
at Coppetts Road. Muswell Hill, where they receive medical and
nursing attention of the highest order. Certain infections of a
special nature are admitted to hospitals under the London County
Council, e.g., Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia cases go
to the North-Western Hospital, Hampstead; Ophthalmia
Neonatorum is treated at St. Margaret's Hospital, Kentish Town.
I desire to acknowledge the great value of such highly specialised
units in the treament of these conditions.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION.
A clinic for Diphtheria Immunisation was arranged during
the year, to be held at one of the Welfare Centres on each
Saturday during each month. The demand was at first so considerable
that it was not possible to cope with it at the Saturday
morning clinics, and special clinics were therefore held at Highgate
Council and St. Michael's Schools.