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by parishioners, that owing to the arrangements made with
the Hornsey District Council, we were enabled to isolate some
50 per cent. of the cases of infectious illness notified. On the
other hand there was during 1903 an exceptional prevalence
of Diphtheria in the District; the disease was, generally
speaking, of a mild type, and the outbreak gave rise to an
unprecedentedly low case-mortality, there being only 3 fatal
cases among 72 sufferers.
The Rate of Infantile Mortality and the Zymotic Deathrate
(i.e., the Death-rate from the 7 principal Communicable
Diseases) are both accepted as excellent tokens of the general
healthiness of the District, and each of these rates was below
that of the preceding* year, and far below the corresponding
rates for England and Wales as a whole.
The Report of the Sanitary Inspector is appended to this
Report. It constitutes, in my opinion, a most satisfactory
record of work for the past year, and I cannot speak too highly
of the manner in which Mr. Franklin and Mr. Topping have
discharged their duties.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HENRY KENWOOD
March, 1904,