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Finchley 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Infectious Diseases and the Measures Taken to Prevent
their Spread.
It will be seen from Table B that 140 notification certificates
of Infectious Disease were received from medical practitioners,
as against 265 in the preceding year, 159 in 1903,
and 189 in 1902.
The Infectious Sickness Rate of the District was 4.9 to
each 1,000 of the population, compared with 10.3 in 1904, 6.6
in 1903, and 8.0 in 1902.
The 140 cases represent infection in 84 different houses.
The cases removed to the Hornsey Isolation Hospital numbered
75, i.e., 53 per cent of those notified.
The actual number of Finchley patients in the Isolation Hospital on various date® during the year is given in the following table:—
| Scarlet Fever Diphtheria. | Enteric. | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 6th, 1905. | 11 | 1 | - | 12 |
| January 27th, | 20 | 3 | l | 24 |
| February 17 th | 17 | 2 | — | 19 |
| March 10th, | 16 | 1 | — | 17 |
| March 31st, | 16 | 1 | — | 17 |
| April 21st, | 8 | — | l | 9 |
| May 12th, | 9 | 2 | l | 12 |
| June 2nd, | 10 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| June 23rd, | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| July 14th, | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| August 26th, | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| September 15th, | 4 | 1 | — | 5 |
| October 6th, | 7 | — | — | 7 |
| October 27th, | 5 | — | — | |
| November Nth, | 4 | — | — | 4 |
| December 8th, | 4 | — | — | 4 |
| December 29th, | 4 | 1 | — | |