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conclusions, due regard has been paid to the question as to
whether any sanitary defect found was of a nature which is
generally held by health officers to predispose to or directly
bring about the particular disease in question.
Thus, apart from the measures that have been taken
to prevent the spread of infectious illness, the notification of
such illness was the means, during the year, of bringing about
a sanitary inspection of 126 premises, and the abatement of
insanitary conditions in 64.
Of the 159 cases of Infectious Diseases notified, 80 were
removed to hospital, or 50 per cent.
The Agreement with the Hornsey Borough Council with
reference to the conjoint use of their Isolation Hospital for
Hornsey and Finchley patients came into operation on
April 1st, 1903. By this arrangement 25 beds will be
reserved for the use of Finchley residents, and cases of three
different infectious diseases will be isolated. This marks a
great advance in the sanitary administration of the District,
and a very much needed improvement of the previous state
of things whereby only one disease (Scarlet Fever) could be
isolated in a small building, which had ceased to be suitable
for the reception of patients at all.
The Infectious Sickness Rate of the District was 6.6
to each 1,000 of the population, as against 8.0 in 1902. The
rate in London generally was 6.0.
It will be seen from Table B1 that the number of cases
of Diphtheria notified were far above the mean of the past 10
years, and they represent a marked increase on the number
notified during the preceding year. On the other hand the
number of cases of Scarlet Fever and Typhoid Fever were far
below the mean.