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to the members
of the
finchley urban district council.
Gentlemen,
In the Finchley District the year 1895, a sanitary sense,
was very uneventful. That is to say there was no outbreak of
infectious illness such as occurred in the preceding year, and the
record of such illness for the year was unprecedentedly low. It is
moreover satisfactory to note that whereas the various mortality
rates for different diseases in the country generally, show an
increase upon the exceptionally low rates of the preceding year,
the similar rates for the Finchley District are, with one exception,
somewhat lower. The most unsatisfactory feature in the Report
is the mortality rate from Whooping Cough, which remains at
about the same abnormally high figure which it reached in the
year 1894. Almost the whole of this largely-preventable mortality
is among the children of the poorer classes, and I have hopes
that the measures of which you have recently approved—and
which will be found set forth in the Report—will have the effect
of reducing this mortality in future years.