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Scarlet Fever again shows a decrease, the number of cases
reported being 96 less when compared with 1897, and 862 less when
compared with 1896. The largest number of cases (59) were reported
in the fourth quarter and the least in the first quarter (29). The
Wards most affected were the Hornsey with 45 cases, Highgate with
26, North Haringey with 25, South Haringey and Stroud Green with
20, followed by Finsbury Park with 15, Muswell Hill with 9, and
Crouch End 8.
Diphtheria.— Twelve more cases were reported compared with
1897, and 4 more with 1896. Most of the cases occurred in the fourth
quarter (33), followed by 81 in the first, 18 in the second, and 17 in
the third. Four of the Wards show a decrease, viz.:— Finsbury Park
8, Highgate 5, Crouch End 4, and North Haringey 2, total 19.
Whilst 19 more cases were reported in Hornsey, 6 in Stroud Green,
4 in South Haringey, and 2 in Muswell Hill, total 31. In looking at
the map marked blue in the places where the disease has occurred, it
will be noted that the great majority of the cases occurred in the
thickly populated neighbourhood of the Boyton Road School. A great
many children attend this school from outside Districts where diphtheria
has been very prevalent, and in all probability the increased
amount of this disease in the Hornsey Ward may be attributed to
children from more or less infected Districts attending this and other
large schools in the neighbourhood. These schools are constantly
visited to ensure that they shall be kept in good sanitary condition,
and whenever a case of diphtheria or other notifiable disease is known
to exist amongst children in attendance, a notice is invariably sent to
the Head Teacher informing him of the fact in order that scholars
from the infected house, as well as the patient, shall be excluded until
a medical certificate is received stating that the period of danger from
infection is over.
Typhoid Fever.— Exactly the same number of cases has been
reported this year as for 1897, viz.:— 31. This compares with 84 for
1896, and 46 for 1895. Most of the cases (14) occurred in the fourth
quarter and the least in the first quarter (2). Hornsey and North
Haringey show the most cases (7 each), and Muswell Hill and South
Haringey the least (1 each). No Ward has been free from this disease.
In order to find out if possible the source of this disease (as well as is