Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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Infectious Diseases and the Measures Taken to Prevent
their Spread
During the year 1906 the number of notification certificates
received from medical practitioners was 190, as
against 140 in the preceding year, 265 in 1904, and 159 in
1903.
The Infectious Sickness Rate of the District was 6.2 to
each 1,000 of the population, compared with 4.9 in 1905, and
10.3 in 1904. The average for the ten years, 1896 to 1905,
was 6.4.
The 190 cases represented infection in 151 different houses.
The cases removed to Hospital numbered 125, i.e., 65 per
cent, of those notified, a rather higher proportion than usual.
The actual number of Finchley patients in the Isolation Hospital on various dates during the year is given in the following table:
Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
January 20th, 1906 | 8 | l | 2 | 11 |
February 10th | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
March 3rd | 7 | 6 | – | 13 |
March 24th | 6 | 4 | – | 10 |
April 14th | 18 | 3 | 1 | 22 |
May 5th | 15 | 2 | 1 | 18 |
May 26th | 14 | 2 | – | 16 |
June 16th | 21 | 2 | – | 23 |
July 14th | 22 | – | – | 22 |
September 22nd | 14 | 1 | – | 17 |
October 13th | 17 | 1 | 2 | 20 |
November 3rd | 16 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
November 24th | 13 | – | 2 | 15 |
December 15th | 14 | 1 | — | 15 |