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Finchley 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Scarlet Fever.
The 67 cases of Scarlet Fever notified were for the most
part of a very mild nature. They represent infection in 57
houses. This is the lowest figure of notification of Scarlet
Fever since 1899.
Diptheria.
The 72 cases of this disease notified during the year gave
rise to only 3 deaths and represented infection in 53 different
households. The disease, therefore, though unusually prevalent,
was of a very mild type
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
The 4 cases which were notified during the year represented
infection in 4 different dwellings. It is ten years since
»uch a low figure of notification was recorded.
Of the 4 cases of Enteric Fever, none proved fatal. The
disease appears to frequently spread from obscure cases in
whom the nature of the disease was not recognised ; and the
risk of the retention of cases of Enteric Fever in the houses
of poor persons, where the conditions of life are such as to
give opportunity for the extension of the disease, is borne out
in many recorded instances.
Measles and Whooping Cough.
Whooping Cough was very prevalent in North Finchley
and Whetstone during the earlier months of the year, and
several schools had to be closed in consequence of the danger
of bringing the children together.