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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Finchley 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: 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.

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.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1894.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Fevers.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.
Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Puerperal.
Under 51482
East Finchley5 upwds810109114331
Under 55811
Church End5 upwds715221
Under 58612
North Finchley5 upwds151213492
Under 532
Whetstone5 upwds5511
Totals .16,41918,015515Under 512024151
5 upwds837421214213133

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" 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.