Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Table B. Table of Population , Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness , coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year 1894, in the Finchley District; Classified according to Diseases , Ages , and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the pur-pose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births. | Aged under 6 or over 5. | New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health. | Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||
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Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1894. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | |||||
Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||
Under 5 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||||
East Finchley | 5 upwds | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Under 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Church End | 5 upwds | 7 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Under 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
North Finchley | 5 upwds | 15 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | ||||||
Under 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||
Whetstone | 5 upwds | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Totals . | 16,419 | 18,015 | 515 | Under 5 | 1 | 20 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||
5 upwds | 8 | 37 | 42 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 13 | 3 |
" Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since January 1st, 1890. Patients were
removed to the Local Scarlet Fever Hospital, Finchley ; the Highgate Smallpox Hospital; and the Sick Children's
Hospital, Great Ormonde Street.