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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE
FINCHLEY DISTRICT COUNCIL
Gentlemen,
In drafting my report on the sanitary condition of
Finchley during the past year, I have endeavoured to give a
clear statement of the principal circumstances affecting the
public health of the District, and to point out to what extent
certain of the adverse conditions appear to be remediable.
The chief items to note in the statistics for 1906 are:—
(1) A slight increase in the birth-rate and in the
death-rate as compared with the corresponding
average rate of the preceding ten years.
(2) A comparatively high rate of infantile mortality,
due to a severe epidemic of summer diarrhoea in
the third quarter of the year.
(3) An infectious sickness rate rather below the
average, though amongst the cases of scarlet
fever notified were some of an exceptionally
malignant type.