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Puerperal Fever.
Three cases were notified. All were carefully investigated
and the necessary precautions taken to prevent the
spread of infection. None of these cases were attended by a
registered midwife.
Erysipelas.
Twenty-three cases were notified. No death occurred.
The oases all occurred in different houses.
Small Pox.
No case of Small Pox was notified during 1911.
Vaccination.
An average of over 900 children are born in the district
each year, and allowing for deaths, removals, etc., about 720
should have been vaccinated. The following are the Vaccination
Returns for the year ending December 31st, 1911, in so
far as they affect Finchley. They have been kindly extracted
from the Returns for the whole Union by the Vaccination
Officer of the Barnet Union, to whose courtesy I am much
indebted:—
Certificates of successful vaccination of children
under the age of 14 481
Certificates of insusceptibility 8
Statutory declaration of conscientious objection
to vaccination 230
Cancer.
Cancer and allied malignant disease was the cause of 30
deaths during the year. This is equal to a death-rate of .76
per 1,000, as compared with 1.1 for 1910.